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"At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general."
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"You can only be twice someone's age once."
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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."
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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."
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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."
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"In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China."
Media
"At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general."
Age
"I feel perhaps my heart is still in China."
Heart
"Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society."
Society
"We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves."
Government
"I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned."
Love
"I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line."
Friendship
"If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else."
Family
"It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling."
Evil
"What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty."
Society
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