"Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love."

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Gao Xingjian

#Writing Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Making Love Quotes

“Like Robin Hood....Not real, but true.”
“And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release â€” out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?”
“The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.”
“Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.”
“I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.”

Source : "Saddam Sends Messages to His Supporters as He Prepares to Die" by Kim Sengupta, www.independent.co.uk. December 28, 2006.
“You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them.”
“Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.”
“In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.”

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