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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
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"We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too."
Life
"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
Character
"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
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"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression."
People
"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
Choice
"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."
Curiosity
"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."
Doubt
"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
Life
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
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"The army is under orders to defend every place."
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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
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"As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out."
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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."
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"The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group."
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"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."
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"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
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"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."
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"Bring the army of the faithful through."
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"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
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