Gish Jen quotes
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“Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.”
-- Gish JenSource : Gish Jen (2014). “Typical American”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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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“A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.”
-- Gish JenSource : "Typical American". Book by Gish Jen, 1991.
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“A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”
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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.”
-- Gish JenSource : Gish Jen (2014). “Typical American”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.”
-- Gish JenSource : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.
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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.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“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 JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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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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“I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.”
-- Gish JenSource : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.
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“I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“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).”
-- Gish JenSource : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.
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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.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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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.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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“For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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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 JenSource : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
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“These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life.”
-- Gish JenSource : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013.
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“There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.”
-- Gish JenSource : Source: therumpus.net
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