"I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer."

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Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.

Ba Jin

#Soldier Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Contradiction Quotes

“I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.”
“My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.”
“This has been a great experience for me. The first couple of days you don't always feel too well. You adjust to the fluid shifting, how to fly through space without hitting things or anybody else. But then you get in a groove.”
“We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.”
“I've long been a fan of Adrian Piper's work. I find her performance pieces moving in their willingness to lean toward the absurd. Yet, there's a social critique in her interaction with people who may or may not have understood that the artist was present.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What I am is a humanist before anything - before I'm a Jew, before I'm black, before I'm a woman. And my beliefs are for the human race - they don't exclude anyone.”
“If the people would but analyze the human equation of a prison they might better account for the crimes that are visited upon them in cities, towns, and hamlets, ofttimes by men who graduated with an education and equipment for just that sort of retributive service from some penal institution.”
“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”

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