Zhang Xianliang quotes

“Yes, this world is truly terrible, which is why the pure and the holy come bravely forward: They have decided to eradicate the sins of the world. They want to standardize people, keep them in order, keep them in place under their own rear ends. They are the reason I have had to die a hundred times.”
-- Zhang Xianliang

Source : Xianliang Zhang, Martha Avery (1991). “Getting used to dying: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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“I've come to realize that it is much easier to infatuate people with promises, or even to lead them to their own deaths, than it is to awaken them to use their minds.”
-- Zhang Xianliang

Source : Xianliang Zhang, Martha Avery (1991). “Getting used to dying: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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“Mountains and rivers are easy to move, but it's impossible to change a man's nature.”
-- Zhang Xianliang

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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.”

“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.”

“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.”

“What's my favourite food? One you order out.”

“Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.”

“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”