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- When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas about the native.'…
- What matters most is that we learn from living.
- If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
- You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
- People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
- A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers…
- Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the…
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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