Best 12 quotes of Ha Jin on MyQuotes

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

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

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

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs. By force, brutal force, he eliminated all the other scripts. One script became the official script. All the others were banned. And those who used other scripts were punished severely. And then the meanings of all the characters, over the centuries, had to be kept uniform as a part of the political apparatus. So from the very beginning the written word was a powerful political tool.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.

In the beginning, his holding could calm the babies, but soon they wanted more motion and wouldn't allow their father to sit down, so Lin had to pace back and forth to stop them from crying......At times he was so miserable that he felt like crying together with his sons, but he controlled himself.

Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?