Do your best and forget the rest, da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron. Dance like you mean it and give it some pizzazz, clap on the backbeat. It’s a great American virtue, the essence of who we are when we’re cooking with gas: enthusiasm, high spirits, rise and shine, qwitcher bellyaching, wake up and die right, pick up your feet, step up to the plate and swing for the fences. “Adopting cheerfulness as a strategy does not mean closing your eyes to evil,” he tells us “it means resisting our drift toward compulsive dread and despond.” Funny, poignant, thought-provoking, and whimsical, this is a book that will inspire you to choose cheerfulness in your daily life. Drawing on personal anecdotes from his young adulthood into his eighties, Keillor sheds light on the immense good that can come from a deliberate work ethic and a buoyant demeanor. Garrison Keillor's newest book, CHEERFULNESS, now available. Speech is carried off by the wind the written word can never be obliterated.” You will find everything I need to say in my works. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Mo Yan said: “For a writer, the best way to speak is by writing. He followed that with The Garlic Ballads (1988). He began writing as a soldier, completing his first novel, titled A Transparent Radish, in 1984. ![]() Later, he worked in a cotton factory before enlisting in the People’s Liberation Army (1976). He was 11 when the Cultural Revolution began and left school to work on a farm as a cattle herder. They were the largest clan in the village and even had two trees, an apricot and a pear. ![]() There really wasn’t much about me worth loving, and that often drew a sigh from my mother.” I had a greedy mouth, and I could not stop talking. Yan was born Guan Moye, but his parents were always warning him not to speak his mind outside the home, which he ignored. Yan is best known for his novel Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (1986), which spans more than 50 years of the Shandong family, who own a sorghum distillery and join the resistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He is the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize in literature (2012). It’s the birthday of novelist Mo Yan, born in Gaomi, China (1955).
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