Ha Jin Quotes

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• The more you move, the stronger you'll grow....
• No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
• Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I…
• I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
• Indifference is the strongest contempt.
• Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
• Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the…
• I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,
• The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
• Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
• You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
• We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?

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