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"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
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"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China."
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it."
"One has the right to be wrong in a democracy."
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"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
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