The dominant kind of snobbery that exists nowadays is job snobbery. You encounter it within minutes at a party, when you get asked that famous iconic question of the early 21st century, "What do you do?" According to how you answer that question, people are either incredibly delighted to see you, or look at their watch and make their excuses.

The streets of Paris have a memory of their own.

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess， but the ridiculous and shameful things.

诗歌是一个可以说出不可言说之事的地方。

——温铁军谈农民工问题的解决