Mirza

“No one is clean. Living makes you dirty.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.” Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“You want to see a very bad man? Make an ordinary man successful beyond his imagination. Let’s see how good he is when he can do whatever he wants.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The earlier adventures of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan provided a ready-to-go blueprint for how to manage the process. Just as China didn’t have to reinvent the wheel on technology—instead copying what already existed in more advanced economies—so also they didn’t have to reinvent the model of a developmental state, instead copying what had already worked so well for their East Asian neighbors.”
― Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble That Never Pops