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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link. KAREN JOY FOWLER So far, the Chinese who have seen my work tend to see a mix of Eastern and Western cultures.
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I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been ... EMMA TENNANT Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The i... MARTIN JACQUES
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European s... MARTIN JACQUES
Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition. M. H. ABRAMS
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It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops... RABINDRANATH TAGORE
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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written —... ANGELA CARTER
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There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature... KHALED HOSSEINI
The literary community is very rich. The Haitian culture stands out as unique, especially the litera... DAVID BROWN
In golf, 'close' is like the north and south rim of the Grand Canyon. JOHNNY MILLER We've met with the prime minister and I think that's a reflection of the importance that the Chinese...
ANTHONY GOOCH Matt was outstanding, and Link did a great job to keep it close and give us a chance.
FRED JORDAN Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even wo...
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Start with The Iliad and The Odyssey , ... Go to the beginning of Western literature and come forwar... RITA MAE BROWN
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than ... JAMES FRANCO A number of elements make up this process, and I know that the authorities are now working on their ...
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas ani... FRANS DE WAAL There are men with heart and soul that respect values and tradition then there are men with no heart...
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for... MINNIE MADDERN FISKE The tradition makes for a great atmosphere. You have both teams fan in the building. These games are...
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and ...
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JAMES COSTOS
As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a ... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL If you are foolish enough to establish a link to an agent of the Chinese government then the only pe...
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material ... GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
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While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese of... ROBERT KIYOSAKI I've spoken to both girls and they agreed it was not painting the sport in the right light.
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Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast ... KEN LIU Usually in a parade you have a grand marshal. Well, we don't just have one grand marshal, we have th...
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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western ... CHRISTOPHER DAWSON Such a view is both a description of China's perspective of democracy and a conclusion reached by th...
FANG NING Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
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