Mu Xin quotes
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“What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority”
-- Mu XinSource : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.
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“Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.”
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“I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously...”
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“If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.”
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“Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.”
-- Mu XinSource : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. August 2003.
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“Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.”
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“The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.”
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“Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.”
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“Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.”
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“Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.”
-- Mu XinSource : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.
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