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Famous Ha Jin Quotes
“In the depths of my being I have never been one of them. I have just written what I experienced.”
Source: War Trash
“The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.”
“Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.”
“You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.”
“We can't continue to be like this. Who am I? Your fiancée or your concubine?”
“I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.”
“Indifference is the strongest contempt.”
Source: A Good Fall: Stories
“Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.”
“I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.”