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"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
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"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."
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