Xi An Quotes

“We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay

“The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.”
― David G. Jones

“Xian was one of the few exceptions I found. It was genuinely interesting and pretty, and rather a stately and dignified place”
― Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China