- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.
- Great Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020