"Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didnâ€™t exist, that didnâ€™t matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it."

-- Tao Lin

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“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
“Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me.”
“Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.”
“Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.”
“Iâ€™m conceited, I got a reason”
“Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.”
“There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.”
“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.

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