“Grandfather, when you saw the tiger were you scared? Bad people scare me, not tigers.
Grandfather, have you ever run into bad people?
There aren’t many tigers but lots of bad people, only you can’t shoot people.”

—  Gao Xingjian

Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 105

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