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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
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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."
"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."
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."
"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."
"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression."
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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
"Politicians look for interests not people."
"Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?"
"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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