Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

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There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so...

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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is...

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I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world....

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The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left...

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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for...

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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret,...

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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them...

Americans have discovered fear.

Americans have discovered fear.

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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a...

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The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has...

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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about...

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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

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It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the...