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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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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
"Sometimes you just have to have a can-do fuck you attitude."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
"He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks."
"When you consistently complain about the things you are gifted to do, check your motivation."
"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."
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"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
"It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power."
"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."
"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
"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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