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I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey. — Steve Yzerman

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

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

But if he didn't read, he was a slave. — Colson Whitehead

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

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

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

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see. — Jonathan Tropper

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

Ladies and dogs," said Jeffrey, "we are about to perform 'Fanfare for the Uncommon Seal.' " "With apologies to Aaron Copland, — Jeanne Birdsall

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

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

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

I believe that if something is troubling you, simply start from where you are and take the action necessary to change it. — Susan Jeffers

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

People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a story somebody wrote, or a SLAYER song. — Tom Araya

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. — Jean Rostand

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society. — Richard Jenkins

A unicorn is nothing more than a big horse that comes to a point, anyway. Nothing to get so excited about. — Terry Pratchett

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

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

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales. — Lisa Jakub

There is need of brevity, that the thought may run on. — Horace