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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."
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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
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"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
Identity
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
Life
"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
Journalism
"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."
Reading
"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."
Literature
"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."
Writing
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
Writing
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