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1. "Mystery and terror are the bulwarks of tyranny." ~ Barry Hughart
2. "Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said. "Is it any wonder that our greatest men have lurched rather than walked across the landscape as they hiccuped their way into history?" ~ Barry Hughart
3. "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." ~ Barry Hughart
4. "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 carcajadas, viértele tres mil años de civilización, grita kan pei, que significa "copa seca", y bébela hasta las heces." Propocio me clavó los ojos. "¿Y seré sabio?", preguntó. "Mejor que eso", le respondí. "Serás chino." ~ Barry Hughart
5. "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 the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it." ~ Barry Hughart
6. "A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expert. In this world, it isn't ability that counts, but authority." ~ Barry Hughart
7. "Occasionally a moderately intelligent thought misses a turn and accidentally enters my mind" ~ Barry Hughart
8. "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 your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell." ~ Barry Hughart
9. "I can see him now in his cart pulled by two deer, followed by a couple of servants. Once carried enough wine to kill Liu Ling, and the other carried a spade to bury him on the spot – so much for Confucian ceremony. When I came to call, he'd greet me stark naked and I can still hear him scream, "The universe is my dwelling place and my house is my only clothes! Why are you entering into my pants?" ~ Barry Hughart
10. "Boy, just look at the soul shining through my eyes! It's like a goddamned flower!" ~ Barry Hughart
11. "Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity." ~ Barry Hughart
12. "Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics." ~ Barry Hughart
13. "Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can." ~ Barry Hughart
14. "'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, logic, and lunacy. Darken the mixture with bitter tears, brighten it with howls of laughter, toss in three thousand years of civilization, bellow kan pei — which means "dry cup" — and drink to the dregs.'Procopius stared at me. 'And I will be wise?' he asked.'Better,' I said. 'You will be Chinese.'" ~ Barry Hughart
15. "The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them." ~ Barry Hughart
16. "'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'" ~ Barry Hughart
17. "Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked.We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists." ~ Barry Hughart
18. "Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?''Emperor,' I said promptly." ~ Barry Hughart
19. "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." ~ Barry Hughart
20. "....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." ~ Barry Hughart

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