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"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
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"The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth."
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"Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction."
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"Stories are like children. They grow in their own way."
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
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"In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself."
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"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
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"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
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"I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends?"
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
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"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
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"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
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"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
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