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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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