A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time. Yiyun Li More Quotes by Yiyun Li More Quotes From Yiyun Li To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. Yiyun Li someday struggle writing The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try. Yiyun Li tragedy trying long The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief. Yiyun Li memories father children 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. Yiyun Li taking-action stronger action If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all. Yiyun Li There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness. Yiyun Li politeness Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society. Yiyun Li censorship political I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised. Yiyun Li isolation memories thinking It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life. Yiyun Li chinese tradition Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say. Yiyun Li language writing meaningful Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system. Yiyun Li suffering Why do I write about China? That is a very good question. I think there are questions about China that I haven't been able to answer. The reason I write is that there are questions to which I want to find answers - or I want to find questions beyond those questions. Yiyun Li reason writing thinking Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice. Yiyun Li chinese justice people
