Zdroj: Kao Sing-ťien na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/autori/xingjian-gao/cz/
Kao Sing-ťien citáty a výroky
Zdroj: [Simkanič, Ján, Xingjian, Gao, iliteratura.cz, 2002-04-29, 2011-03-01, http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/13315/xingjian-gao]
Kao Sing-ťien: Citáty anglicky
Interview by Jean-Luc Douin http://web.archive.org/web/20130421061108/http://my.opera.com/PRC/blog/?startidx=560
“Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.”
Zdroj: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 12, p. 70
“I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.”
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 99
“The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.”
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 101
“Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.”
Zdroj: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 5, p. 32
“They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.”
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 110, from "buying a fishing rod for my grandfather"
“Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.”
Zdroj: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 80, p. 503
“When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice.”
Zdroj: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 81, p. 505
“A good man never fights with a woman.”
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 103
“Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.”
Zdroj: Soul Mountain (1989), ch. 2, p. 15
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 105
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 100
Zdroj: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 128, from "In an instant"