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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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. . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How dare – how dare anybody lift his or her voice in criticism against us? We have the guns. Their level of paranoia and power-drunkenness is unbelievable.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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