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A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.
Gish Jen
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Gish Jen
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 12
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The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.
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... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.
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I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.
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A man was the sum of his limits freedom only made him see how much so.
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Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
Gish Jen
There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.
Gish Jen
A man was the sum of his limits freedom only made him see how much so.
Gish Jen
It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!
Gish Jen
It's a matter of whether you see the self as fundamentally in relationship to other selves or not - whether you see the boundary between self and the world as relatively permeable, which makes you interdependent (collectivist) in outlook, or relatively impermeable, which makes you independent (individualistic).
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When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.
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That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.
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Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.
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These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.
Gish Jen