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But it’s frustrating, that you know what good literature is but you cannot get it totally right.

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Death is not completely tragic, perhaps it will be the completion of a redemption, or the beginning of a rebirth.

Any suffering registered in your mind makes the emotion deeper. Maybe as a writer, I am constantly looking for tragedy.

I like to play with words. In English, there's only one or two ways to say something; in Chinese there are 30 ways.

Of course, the vision of many works, such as the sense of picture and imagery, is actually unconscious by the writer. If the writer is conscious, he will write very artificial things.

My dream is to write with both pens, in English and Chinese. I want to be more truthful and more straightforward when I write in English.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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