"I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear."

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Source : "Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.

Ma Jian

#People Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Crushed Quotes

“When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.”
“How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?”

Source : John Diamond (2001). “Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations”, Random House
“Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.”
“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”
“There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.”
“There is no perfect spaghetti sauce. There are perfect spaghetti sauces.”
“I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.”
“I get angry about things, then go on and work.”

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