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• The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
• In literature, you know only what you imagine
• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
• In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.
• Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.
• There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
• Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
• By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
• What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.
• You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember,…
• In a world torn by every kind of fundamentalism - religious, ethnic, nationalist and tribal - we must grant first place to…
• Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live…

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