Minto

“The sorrow and happiness of those people are not related.
I only find them noisy.”
― Lu Xun, 而已集

“The fearful thing about the Chinese literary scene is that everyone keeps introducing new terms without defining them. And everyone interprets these terms as he pleases. To write a good deal about yourself is expressionism. To write largely about others is realism. To write poems on a girl's leg is romanticism. To ban poems on a girl's leg is classicism.”
― Lu Xun

“Relying on the ancient concept of yin and yang of the negative and the positive, they like to show off to women. But people today have had a glimpse of the truth and know that this talk of yin and yang is absolute gibberish. Even if there are dual principles, there is no way of proving that yang is nobler than yin, the male superior to the female. Besides, society and the state are not built by men only. Hence we must accept the truth that both sexes are equal. And if equal, they should be bound by the same contract. Men cannot make rules for women which they do not keep themselves.”
― Lu Xun

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye