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Quotes by Writer
"Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way."
119
"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."
119
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
118
"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."
116
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
116
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
115
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it."
114
"My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify."
114
"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
114
"Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
113
"In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die."
113
"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
113
"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
113
"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
112
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
111
"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."
111
"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
111
"I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic."
111
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
111
"This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization."
110
"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
110
"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."
109
"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
109
"The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas."
108
"Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression."
108
"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."
108
"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies."
107
"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."
107
"I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it."
106
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
106
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