I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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