"Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken."

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Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.

Mu Xin

#Ideas Quotes #Broken Quotes #Necklaces Quotes

“A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can.”
“Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”
“I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.”
“The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.”

Source : Harold Adams Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.321, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“Fear is instantly debilitating and love instantly empowering”
“Songwriters are still the brightest people in any room.”
“Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.”

Source : Christian De Duve (1995). “Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative”, Basic Books
“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

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