Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong. - Yiyun Li

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Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

Yiyun Li

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

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No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person's control is stronger in China.

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Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

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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.

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If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.

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There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

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