"I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day."

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Source : "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers". Book by Xiaolu Guo, 2007.

Xiaolu Guo

#Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Pancakes Quotes

“My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.”
“Swimming isn't everything, winning is.”
“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”
“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”
“Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods.”
“I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.”
“We write by the light of every story we have ever read.”
“Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.”

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