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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 need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army."
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"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."
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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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"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
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"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."
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"The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps."
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"In this respect I expressed my doubts about using the Corps directly on the South coast, to form a bridgehead for the Army - as the area immediately behind the coast was now covered with obstacles. These doubts were accepted by Hitler."
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"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
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"I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me."
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"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."
War
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
Army
"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
Emotional
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
Life
"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."
Civilization
"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
Doubt
"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
Friendship
"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
Values
"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."
Doubt
"As a writer, I've always been interested in others."
Curiosity
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