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Lin Yutang Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: China
  • Born: Oct 10, 1895
  • Died: Mar 26, 1976

Lin Yutang was a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

humor

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

society

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

hope

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

home & travel