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Gao Xingjian

A good man never fights with a woman.

Fighting

Good Man

Men

A good work can be communicated across languages … [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Doe

Fall

Thinking

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women’s worlds.

Males

Views

Women

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

Body

Scent

Smell

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self.

Dream

Real

Self

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Making Love

Poetry

Writing

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can’t find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Adversity

Problem

Reason

For me, writing [was] a question of survival…I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Atmosphere

People

Writing

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Believe

Fate

I Believe

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

Creative

Trends

Want

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Baby

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Believe

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Book

Burden

Buttons

Chinese

Cliche

Compromise

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Confusing

Country

Creative

Details

Differences

Distance

Doe

Dream

Ease

Essentials

Ethical

Europe

Eye

Facts

Fall

Fate

Fiction

Fighting

Filters

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Games

Giving

God

Good Man

Green

Hate

Heart

Heaven

Hero

Humans

I Believe

Ideas

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Quotes by Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian

A good man never fights with a woman.

A good work can be communicated across languages … [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women’s worlds.

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can’t find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival…I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

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