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21 " It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life. "
― Yu Hua , To Live
22 " No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there's nothing that will keep him alive. "
23 " As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night. "
24 " The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her. "
25 " 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. "
― Yu Hua , China in Ten Words
26 " It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui. "
27 " We were fishers of memory waiting on the banks of time and waiting for the past to swallow the date. "
28 " At first, writing actually felt the more arduous of the two activities. But in order to reach cultural-center nirvana, I forced myself to continue. I was young then and it was no easy matter to persuade my bottom to maintain such constant intimacy with my chair "
29 " With relief I arrived at memory's peak,and a broader landscape came into view. "
― Yu Hua , The Seventh Day
30 " You know how men are... always peering into the pot even when they're eating out of the bowl. "
― Yu Hua , Brothers
31 " Hứa Ngọc Lan và Nhị Lạc vừa ngồi tại chỗ, là hai mẹ con cứ nói hết chuyện nọ lại xọ sang chuyện kia, một người đàn bà ba mươi tuổi và một cậu bé tám tuổi, khi nói chuyện với nhau giống như hai người đàn bà ba mươi tuổi, hoặc hai cậu bé tám tuổi, hai người nói chuỵện sau khi ăn cơm, hai người nói chuyện trước khi ngủ, hai người nói chuỵên khi cùng đi ra phố, hai người thường xuyên càng nói càng hợp gu. "
― Yu Hua , Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
32 " Vừa nãy anh khóc là cứ tưởng Nhất Lạc đã chết, bây giờ khóc là vì đã trông thấy Nhất Lạc vẫn còn sống… "
33 " My emotional state then was cramped and confined, like a room with tightly sealed windows and doors: although love's footsteps could be heard outside the room, I felt they were steps heading somewhere else--until one day when the steps came to a halt and the bell rang. "
― Yu Hua
34 " The timid die of hunger, the bold of overeating. "
35 " 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. "
36 " We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort. "
37 " Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination. "
38 " revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution. "
39 " En realidad no vivimos en la Tierra, sino en el interior del tiempo. "
40 " Those immediately behind number 50 were anguish personified. They let loose an endless stream of foul language and it was hard to tell whether they were cursing themselves or cursing something else. My neighbours and I in the last third of the queue only felt a pang of disappointment whereas those who just missed out on the coupon were like people who see the duck that they had cooked flap its wings and fly away. "