Ken Liu Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ken Liu
Ken Liu Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Safety is an illusion, as is faith without temptation. We're imperfect, unlike the gods, but in that imperfection we may yet make them jealous.
If you insist on fighting every fight that comes your way, you're simply letting them push you around in a different way.
The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial - the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we're enmeshed.
Who can plan so far ahead? I just promise myself to do the most interesting thing every time there's an opportunity.
There's never going to be an end to suffering if 'he deserves it' is all the justification people need for inflicting pain.
Mazoti said nothing. It always seemed that no matter how hard a woman worked, a man could eclipse her with no effort. "Gin,
But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves were . . . well, thick as thieves.
He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts.
Sometimes it was hard to tell where the performance ended and the real self began - but what was this "real" self other than a set of performances?
You will have sacrificed the lives of the people for personal honor, an empty word," Luan said. "That seems to me a most selfish act.
I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.
He was like a seed still tethered to the withered flower, just waiting for the dead air of the late summer evening to break, for the storm to begin.
The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.
Read a lot of books and try a lot of recipes," Jia said. "When you learn enough about the world, even a blade of grass can be a weapon.
The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever will.
At the end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure. Ruth
Sometimes those who lit the spark that began a conflagration must be consumed by it lest the fire burn on indefinitely.
Surveillance is surveillance. I can never understand why some people think it matters whether it's the government doing it to you or a company.
There is a time for flight, and a time for descent; a time for movement, and a time for rest; a time to do, and a time to prepare." "This
A man who can kill several people with a sword is merely a living weapon. A great warrior can kill thousands of men with just his mind.
He wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession.
A lord who knows how to wield men is ten times more fearsome than one who knows only how to wield a sword.
Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself.
A little self-doubt is a good thing," said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us.
The way I look at it is this: If you try to obey the law, and the judges call you a criminal anyway, then you might as well live up to the name.