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• Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax…
• Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain…
• Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done…
• I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve been thrown into…
• Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
• I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.
• I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.
• I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me.
• Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
• There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the…
• This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need.
• Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

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