My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: February 7, 1943 |
“When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. ”
“I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.”