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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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"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
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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."
"Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt."
"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."
"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
"The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan."
"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."
"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."
"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."
"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."
"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."
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