The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
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A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
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