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"I feel perhaps my heart is still in China."
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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact."
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"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."
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"The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart."
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"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
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"I wear my heart on my sleeve."
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"My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans."
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"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
"The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings."
People
"China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there."
People
"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
"I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about."
People
"I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."
Beauty
"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."
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"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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