You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
History does not unfold: it piles up.
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.
There is nothing like the camaraderie that one has with fellow drinkers. It is a club you never leave once you join. Well, willingly or easily.