In China, your freedom is always limited, but this limitation applies to almost everyone. If someone does injustice to you, though, you have to find a way to avenge yourself - even by illegal measures. In a sense, injustice is more personal. This idea has always been in Chinese history. I think we read about freedom of speech, or lack of freedom of speech, in China so often. But I don't think people here in America think about how justice, or the idea of justice, is so important in a Chinese setting. It's probably more important than freedom of speech in the Chinese mindset at this moment.
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a sp… - Yiyun Li
But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a sp…
- Yiyun Li
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the… - Yiyun Li
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the…
I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see. - Yiyun Li
I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.
A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time. - Yiyun Li
A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.
Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system. - Yiyun Li
Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.
She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that someti… - Yiyun Li
She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that someti…
Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime. - Yiyun Li
Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. - Yiyun Li
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter. - Yiyun Li
Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.
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