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Quotes from Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather — Gao Xingjian

born 1940 China

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The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005)

They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005)

I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005)

She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005)

A good man never fights with a woman.

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005)

Grandfather, when you saw the tiger were you scared? Bad people scare me, not tigers.
Grandfather, have you ever run into bad people?
There aren’t many tigers but lots of bad people, only you can’t shoot people.

Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gao Xingjian (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.