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Juan Goytisolo

"For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing."

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

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Donna Grant

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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Donna Grant

"No holidays, no country."

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Donna Grant

"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

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Donna Grant

"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

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Donna Grant

"We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've seen the dangerous effects caused by extreme temperatures in the past."

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"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."

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Juan Goytisolo
"For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing."

Nation

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Juan Goytisolo
"In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading."

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Juan Goytisolo
"A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque."

Art

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Juan Goytisolo
"I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger."

Values

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Juan Goytisolo
"In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist."

Faith

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Juan Goytisolo
"When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts."

Architecture

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Juan Goytisolo
"And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me."

Experience

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Juan Goytisolo
"In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc."

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"In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony."

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Juan Goytisolo
"Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country."

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