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"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."
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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."
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"MANY PHENOMENA--wars, plagues, sudden audits--have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man."
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"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come."
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"Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was."
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"All evil is good become cancerous."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."
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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
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"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"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
"I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet."
Family
"While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister."
Thought
"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
"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
"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 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 no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit."
Time
"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
"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
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