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"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."
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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
Creativity
"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
Inspirational
"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."
Fear
"Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer."
Choice
"For me, words are just words, nothing else."
Nothing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."
Writing
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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