I have decided that the problem with poetic justice is that it never knows when to stop.
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world.
I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may you...
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.
One of the previous possessors of the stone was Chuang Tzu. He had a disciple who spent seven years studying universal energy and then demonstrated his wisdom by walking across the surface of a river...
Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It’s like a goddamned flower!
Alas, great is my sorrow. Your name is Ah Chen, and when you were born I was not truly pleased. I am a farmer, and a farmer needs strong sons to help with his work, but before a year had passed you ha...
The mind is a miser, he said. Nothing is ever thrown away, and it's amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.
Nothing on the face of this earth - and I do mean nothing - is half so dangerous as a children's story that happens to be real, and you and I are wandering blindfolded through a myth devised by a mani...
Of course there is a slight chance that somebody might want to give the Celestial Bookmaker a heart attack.
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do...
Show me a quest for personal immortality and I'll show you a path through a slaughterhouse, and the incense of personal divinity is the stench of other people's corpses.
Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccupped their way into history? Sir, that’s the best autobiography I ever heard! I said enthusiast...
Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.
He actually seemed to want an answer, so I shrugged and said, A superior who inherited the job from an uncle rams a barge pole up his ass.
Ginseng hunters refer to the plant as chang-diang shen, the root of lightning, because it is believed that it appears only on the spot where a small mountain spring has been dried up by a lightning bo...
Coge un cuenco grande, dije. Llénalo con medidas iguales de hechos, fantasías, historia, mitología, ciencia, superstición, lógica y locura. Oscurece la mezcla con lágrimas amargas, aclárala con carcaj...
The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone hated.
O great and mighty Master Li, pray impart to me the Secret of Wisdom! he bawled.Take a large bowl, I said. Fill it with equal measures of fact, fantasy, history, mythology, science, superstition, logi...
Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.
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