“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem
so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
― 吴汝忠 (1505 - 1580). After failing several imperial exams, he
became a minor official of the Ming dynasty but became
dissapointed by the corrupted political climate of his
times, and became a hermit before he set himself to write one of
the famous four books. He is better known as Wu Cheng'en (吴承恩), and
it was under such disillusionment that the book was written....
