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"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?"
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
"Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films."
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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."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
"Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up."
"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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