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.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
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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 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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Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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