

“You know how men are... always peering into the pot even when they're eating out of the bowl.”
― Brothers
― Brothers

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.”
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“People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.”
― 十個詞彙裡的中國
― 十個詞彙裡的中國

“It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write. Nothing in the world, perhaps, is so likely to forge a connection between people as pain, because the connection that comes from that source comes from deep in the heart.”
― China in Ten Words
― China in Ten Words
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