Jian Quotes: top 32 famous quotes about Jian

Jian Quotes & Sayings

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Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb. — Ma Jian

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — 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

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

When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. — Ma Jian

I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility. — Ma Jian

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner. — Ma Jian

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. — Ma Jian

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland. — Ma Jian

When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish. — Ma Jian

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost. — Ma Jian

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven . — Gordon B. Hinckley

If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. — 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

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. — Ma Jian

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification. — Sara Sheridan

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. — Ma Jian

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

The deceitful misquoting of scientists to suit an anti-scientific agenda ranks among the many unchristian habits of fundamentalist authors. — Richard Dawkins

We must be brief. — Victor Hugo

If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal. — Biz Stone

There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks. — Jack Nicklaus

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. — Ma Jian

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. — Ma Jian

We will pick our way through the shards of broken objects folly leaves behind. And some of what breaks will be very beautiful. — Guy Gavriel Kay

I meant every word of it, Dylan Day. Lie to me and I'll cut your cock off and pickle it. — Kitty French

Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. — Marilyn Manson

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

He wasn't running," said Bruno, "and he wasn't crawling. He went struggling along like a portmanteau. And he held his chin ever so high in the air - — Lewis Carroll

I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue. — Ma Jian