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"I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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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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