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Pu Songling
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“My talents are not those of Kan Pao, elegant explorer of the records of the Gods; I am rather animated by the spirit of Su Tung-P'o, who loved to hear men speak of the supernatural. I get people to commit what they tell me to writing, and subsequently I dress it up in the form of a story; thus in the lapse of time my friends from all quarters have supplied me with quantities of material, which, from my habit of collecting, has grown into a vast pile.”
Pu Songling (1640–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Author's Own Record", trans. Herbert Allen Giles in Gems of Chinese Literature (1922), p. 235
“How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! [...] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!”
Pu Songling (1640–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Painted Skin", trans. John Minford in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin, 2006), p. 521