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Yiyun Li Quotes & Sayings

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The best thing about this band is I'm the leader! — Keith Emerson

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end. — Yiyun Li

Our masters say that real arts never die. Real arts are about remembrance. — Yiyun Li

It was not about keeping a man; it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman. — Yiyun Li

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong. — Yiyun Li

I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity! — Larry Niven

We live in a wrong time," Yang said. — Yiyun Li

One man's mistake can capsize a whole ship of people."
"True. — Yiyun Li

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life. — Yiyun Li

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. — Yiyun Li

Amazing how much one could take and then all of a sudden he broke."
"True. — Yiyun Li

Persimmons are not born soft,"
"But they are valued for their softness."
"Their ripeness. — Yiyun Li

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it? — Yiyun Li

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy' - in Chinese or in English. — Yiyun Li

But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?"
"Theirs. — Yiyun Li

To say we know a person is to write that person off. — Yiyun Li

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. — David Hume

I'm very content with my life. I mean, who wouldn't be? — Blake Shelton

Cheerfulness is a choice, just as depression is. If you choose the former, the later will take charge. — R.v.m.

She felt the dampness of her palms and wiped them on the back of her black cotton skirt. — Yiyun Li

Fear will paralyze you and prohibit growth — Michelle Cook-Hall

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time. — Yiyun Li

I just want to have fun. — Victoria Azarenka

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime. — Yiyun Li

Her god is just like a Chinese parent, never running out of excuses to love a son. — Yiyun Li

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time? — Yiyun Li

Our life, we realize, is not as happy as we have been taught to think. — Yiyun Li

I never showed up in her dreams, I am certain, as people we keep in our memories rarely have a place for us in theirs. — Yiyun Li

A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best; a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect. — Yiyun Li

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? — Yiyun Li

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist. — Yehuda Berg

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately. — Charles Koch

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after. — Yiyun Li

The moment you admit someone into your heart you make yourself a fool, — Yiyun Li

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter. — Yiyun Li

Different lifestory but with a same lovestory
They mey once by serendipity
Smiled at each other but totally stranger — Patrick Cruz

But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen. — William Hazlitt

April is the cruellest month. — T. S. Eliot

People don't vanish from one's life; they come back in disguise. — Yiyun Li

Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart. — Yiyun Li

Nothing destroys a livable life more completely than unfounded hope — Yiyun Li