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1 " …depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview. "
― Jan Wong , Out of the Blue
2 " Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. "
― Jan Wong
3 " Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters. "
― Jan Wong , Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
4 " As the past disappears, I keep getting lost. "
5 " During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese lived and died by their class backgrounds. They boasted about ancestors who had starved to death. But if a banker or landowner lurked in their background, they dropped their voices low and disclosed the shameful fact as if they came from a long line of pedophiles. "
