"For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival."

-- Mo Yan

#Country Quotes #Army Quotes #Boys Quotes

“You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.”
“I came in 11 years ago. I remember it like it was tomorrow”
“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.”
“Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. Thatâ€™s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have”
“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.”
“If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.”
“The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed, but your ego will not be satisfied. When you become a little more successful your ego wants to kill your competition. And when you become even more successful, it wants to make you the universal king. There's no telling what ego wants because our desire doesn't have any limit; therefore, its demands continually increase.”
“I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.”

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