“For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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