The “Lying Flat” Literary Award Winning Speech

  1. I’ve never enjoyed my work, and my goal is always to get by. –Raymond Carver
  2. I didn’t want to go to school because I was too sleepy and too cold. No one likes me at school either. — Orhan Pamuk
  3. I have no money to spend, but I am too lazy to earn it. — Chekhov
  4. The best thing I can do is to stumble. — Kafka
  5. My wish is to be a happy girl now, a happy aunt in my middle age, and a happy old woman in my old age. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
  6. I have no goal in life; it is enough for me to live each day with pleasure. I think that since I can’t even be sure whether I will live or die tomorrow, it is futile to think about everything. –Edogawa Shibu
  7. sometimes we can dwell on our misery and cannot extricate ourselves from it: lying flat. No movement, no fighting spirit and no future. — Camus
  8. I contemplated that it would be my ideal to live a life of meanness and shamelessness. — Sagan
  9. I live a life that is not right. I do nothing, and sleep late. — Halms
  10. One must fall in the right way of depravity to the end. –Yango Sakaguchi
  11. Most of the students came to find the truth, to find wisdom. I am here for the hang-ups. — Wang Zengqi
  12. to go home as if it were the only thing waiting, and work like that today. — Ishikawa Woodpecker
  13. “What do you want to do?” “I want to be idle.” — Maugham
  14. of course I have no plans, no prospects, I can not walk into the future, but fall into the future, roll into the future, stumbling into the future is what I can do. The best I can do is to lie still. — Kafka