"Indifference is the strongest contempt." — Ha Jin
"Indifference is the strongest contempt."
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Ha Jin
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12 Quotes by Ha Jin
Ha Jin has 12 quotes on this site.
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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow....
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No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind…
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Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can…
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I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or…
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I don’t think of myself as a dissident, and I’m more of an immigrant than an exile,
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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
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Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
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You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog…
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We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?
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More Contempt Quotes
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one of 515 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
— Carl Bernstein
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill
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