"People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature."

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Source : Mo Yan (2013). “The Republic of Wine: A Novel”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Mo Yan

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“Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.”
“The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.”
“Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.”
“I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.”

Source : Source: www.towleroad.com
“What we love we shall grow to resemble.”
“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Source : Wendell Berry, Morris Allen Grubbs (2007). “Conversations with Wendell Berry”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.”
“Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.”

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