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Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Ha Jin

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Ha Jin
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 21
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Jin Xuefei
Hajin
Xuefei Jin
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Baggage
Carry
Journey
Everything
Life

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I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
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