"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."

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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

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"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."

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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

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"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

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"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."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

"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."

"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

"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."

"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."

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"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."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."