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Mo Yan Inspirational Quotes (32)

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Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.
Mo Yan
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I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.
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Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.
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I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.
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My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.
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If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.
Moshe Dayan
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It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.
Moshe Dayan
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A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
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I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
Moshe Dayan
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I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
Moshe Dayan
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I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.
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A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.
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I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
Moshe Dayan
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I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
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A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
Moshe Dayan
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It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.
Moshe Dayan
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Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
Moshe Dayan
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Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
Moshe Dayan
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I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
Moshe Dayan
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.
Moshe Dayan
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In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
Moshe Dayan
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I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.
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If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
Moshe Dayan
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