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Mau QUOTES

Mau QUOTES

1 " Nellie grinned. " I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." " Sweet," put in Dan. " Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike." The au pair sighed. " Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth. "

2 " Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. " It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices " No, not yet," and the sky said " No, not there. "

3 " Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said. "

― Ma Jian , Beijing Coma

4 " I promise that this won't be our last night together, that there will be lots of nights together. I'm promising that we will see each other again, and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that happens in less than a year." He gently brushed the hair back from my face, looking in my eyes. " And I promise you that I'm going to love you, forever. Na'u 'oe, nau ko'u. You're mine and I'm yours. I'm promising you mau loa. I'm promising you forever." - Kai "