"I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people."

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Source : "Chinese writer Mo Yan, known for bawdy, sprawling tales, wins Nobel literature prize". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2012.

Mo Yan

#Writing Quotes #Feet Quotes #People Quotes

“As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!”

Source : Hugh Ferriss (2012). “The Metropolis of Tomorrow”, p.18, Courier Corporation
“People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.”

Source : Brian Friel (2016). “Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 2: The Freedom of the City; Volunteers; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.41, Faber & Faber
“I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.”
“On the road of life... Meet people where they are, Accept who they are. And there are some folks that you need to leave where they are... Keep walking.”

Source : FaceBook post by Denise Linn from Jan 20, 2014
“Arthritic toothless people who love ***** are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.”
“Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.”
“A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality”
“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”

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