When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. (Ma Jian)

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

Related topics

link past speak word write

Related quotes

An example is often a deceptive mirror, And the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, Is not always found written in things past.

Pierre Corneille

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Henry David Thoreau

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Walter Scott

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

Vladimir Nabokov