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"It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day."
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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."
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"Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
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"Man is the only god of confusion. In a political sense the liberal man is like one shouting over the voice of God thus making it difficult to hear God; the conservative man is like one standing in the way of God, making it difficult to see God."
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"Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so."
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"Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy."
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"There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer."
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"Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics."
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"I was always influenced by language."
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"I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there."
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"The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it."
Language
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Books
"I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me."
Family
"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."
People
"To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation."
History
"However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned."
Writing
"I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place."
Age
"Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children."
Family
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