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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
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"Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
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"Joblessness releases you from the world system."
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"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
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"No one in this world is your boss! Yet people walk around with a perplexed look, thinking 'someone will take away my things!' Hey, you are the owner of the whole universe. Who can take away what is yours?"
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"Well sir, if things are real, they're there all the time"Are they?"
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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"
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"Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our joy, we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves to anyone."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
Control
"I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends."
Friendship
"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
Society
"Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is."
Language
"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."
Experience
"I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?"
Nation
"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."
World
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
Being
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
Attitude
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
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