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Ma Jian has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls…
• Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the…
• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own…
• My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary…
• The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life
• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but…
• Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
• I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

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