"Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window."

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Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.

Mu Xin

#Doors Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Window Quotes

“The past is getting clearer and clearer”
“The media plays an essential role in our culture. It is the Fourth Estate; it's an undeniably essential instrument in the great American experiment - in keeping our democracy functional. People have very strong opinions about what that means and how information should be disseminated to a population that requires information.”
“If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.”
“The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.”
“The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.”
“By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.”
“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.261, Princeton University Press
“Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.”

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