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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

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Ha Jin
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 21
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Jin Xuefei
Hajin
Xuefei Jin
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No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
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Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
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Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
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Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
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English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
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I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
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