Lin Yutang Quotes

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Comedian | October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976
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This is the last time I'm asking you this,
Put my name at the top of your lips.
This is the last time I'm asking you why
You break my heart in the blink of an eye, eye, eye.
Taylor Swift
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Is not just a faded echo of the feeble voice of decadent romanticism but an authentic Indian English utterance exquisitely tuned to the composite to Indian ethos, bringing home to the unbiased reader all the opulence, pageantry and charm of Indian life, and the spenders of Indian scene.
Sarojini Naidu
I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.
Tishani Doshi
Meat eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness, I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back.
MC Solaar
I am great admirer of China. It has shown great discipline and dedication in attacking n export markets. China is working furiously on its English-language capability and its quality control. As China become stronger, it sends a clear signal that we in India have to harder to stay ahead.
Narayana Murthy
It seems such a shame
When the English claim
The Earth,
That they give rise
To such hilarity
And mirth.
Noël Coward
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Tishani Doshi
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Li Ka-shing
[http://web.archive.org/web/20041010171643/http://users.compaqnet.be/cn111132/chuang-tzu/ Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu], translated by Burton Watson
Zhuang Zhou
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[https://archive.org/stream/sextusempiricusa17556gut/17556.txt Full text of Pyrrhonic Sketches online]
Sextus Empiricus
[https://archive.org/search?query=Tegla+Lorupe&sin=TXT Internet Archive]
Tegla Loroupe
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070309142929/http://www.shinfujin.gr.jp/eng/1_what/index.html New Japan Women's Association]
Hiratsuka Raichō
[https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/audio/playlists/dust_tracks.php Online recordings of Zora (made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida)]
Zora Neale Hurston
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[https://m.rediff.com/news/varsha.htm Archive of Articles by Varsha]
Asha Bhosle
Griffin Burns (Anime English Dub)
Kenji "Yellow" Ito
[...] only old branches can be broken. The young ones bend with the storm. Only the stupid ones resist.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer