"To be able to do art, it was…" — Anchee Min

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12 Quotes by Anchee Min

Anchee Min has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.
I think about giving up. I almost do.
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses,…
lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught…
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order…
Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little…
The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what…
The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with…

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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less… — Paul Auster
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural… — David Attenborough

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