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Gish Jen
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“That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special — these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”
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“Interested in himself, he believed himself a subject of interest ...”
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“A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”
Gish Jen, U.S. writer
(1955)
Born: Lillian Jen.