"A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind."

-- Lin Yutang

#Funeral Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”
“It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.
“Hard work is what keeps the ship moving.”
“Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality."”
“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”
“I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.”
“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”
“Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”

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