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Ma Jian quotes - page 2
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
Ma Jian
I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Ma Jian
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
I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
Ma Jian
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
Ma Jian
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
Ma Jian
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Ma Jian
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
Ma Jian
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Ma Jian
Occupation:
British Writer
Born:
August 18, 1953
Quotes count:
37
Wikipedia:
Ma Jian
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