I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.Jose Saramago
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.
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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
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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?
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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
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