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"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
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"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."

"A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation."

"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."

"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.I love you. Remember. They cannot take it."
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"My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language."

"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."

"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
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