"Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing.……" — Ha Jin
"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 revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice."
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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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Indifference is the strongest contempt.
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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
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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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Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
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