“It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.”
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.”
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 110, from "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather"
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Chinese novelist and playwright 1940Related quotes
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