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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
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"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
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"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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