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"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."
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"Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone."
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"Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali."
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"The traveler knows the grace of travel."
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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"
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"Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there."
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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
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"This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be the perfect time to disembark."
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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"
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"London is a roost for every bird."
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
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"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
War
"There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past."
Old
"Underground literature only began in the '70s, when technical developments made it possible. Before that, we were involved in a game with the censors. That was our struggle."
Literature
"In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated."
Experience
"Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination."
War
"Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly."
Fear
"We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres."
Now
"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
Literature
"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."
Crisis
"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."
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