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— Ma Jian"I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually."
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
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Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar. ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.
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