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I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time. ~ Dick Cavett
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Every time that you read a book that is worth anything, the author has put everything they know into that book; so when you read that book, you eat their life. You kind of go up a level; so if you read 50 books, you've lived 50 lifetimes.
CBC interview Q with Jian Gomeshi Sept.23, 2014 ~ Caitlin Moran
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'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
I feel I have walked onto a stage. The people around me are absorbed in their parts, putting on this great show, but nothing seems real. Every object looks like a prop. Since I have no part I am reduced to the role of a spectator, but there is nowhere to sit, so I have to mingle with the actors on stage. It is a terrible feeling. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
They are Will and Tessa, and you were Ke Jian Ming. You were James Carstairs. You were Jem. ~ Cassandra Clare
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Cassandra Clare
I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I'm walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am my own shadow. The road we're walking along looks familiar. The trees lining the pavement have been bleached by the sun. There are stone steps on my left. I climb them. This is the route I used to take after school. It's very dark. The skeleton has disappeared. ~ Ma Jian
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
On July 3, 1968, Chairman Mao issued an order calling for the ruthless suppression of class enemies. He wanted all members of the Five Black Categories to be eliminated, together with TWENTY THREE NEW TYPES of enemy , which included anyone who had ever served as a policeman before the Liberation, or who had been sent to prison or labor camp. And not only them but their family and distant relatives as well.
That's a lot of people.
Yes. Just think, the literal meaning of the Chinese characters for "revolution" is "elimination of life ~ Ma Jian
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment. ~ Jian Yang
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Jian Yang
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. ~ Ma Jian
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I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness. ~ Ma Jian
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. ~ Ma Jian
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it. ~ Ma Jian
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Before the sparrow arrived, you had almost stopped thinking about flight. Then, last winter, it soared through the sky and landed in front of you, or more precisely on the windowsill of the covered balcony adjoining your bedroom. You knew the grimy window panes were caked with dead ants and dust, and smelt as sour as the curtains. But the sparrow wasn't put off. It jumped inside the covered balcony and ruffled its feathers, releasing a sweet smell of tree bark into the air. Then it flew into your bedroom, landed on your chest and stayed there like a cold egg. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer. ~ Ma Jian
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility. ~ Ma Jian
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations. ~ Ma Jian
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. ~ Ma Jian
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ~ Ma Jian
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. ~ Ma Jian
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. ~ Ma Jian
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell. ~ Ma Jian
Jian Gomeshi quotes by Ma Jian
My mind flashed back to the Cultural Revolution, when a group of Red Guards pulled our neighbor, Granny Li, out of the opera company's dormitory block and ordered the rest of us to bring out our thermos flasks. We then had to stand and watch as the Red Guards poured ten flasks of boiling water over Granny Li's head. ~ Ma Jian
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