Anchee Min Quotes

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• 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, the smiles that had been…
• 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 to appreciate the fresh air…
• We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We…
• Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by…
• 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 kind of power was his?…
• To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.
• The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just…

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