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" A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women. "
Equality
Few
Men And Women
" An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. "
Now
Equality
Like
" As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial. "
Self-Doubt
You
Writer
" A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. "
Write
Writer
Just
" Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish. "
Humor
Important
Irony
" Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again. "
Children
Go
Grandchildren
" If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel? "
Fall
Accept
Country
" If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper. "
Unknown
Risk
Character
" I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country. "
Country
Respect
People
" I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. "
Courage
Tide
Wind
" I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching. "
Urge
Afraid
Incurable
" Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish. "
Because
Many
Had
" Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck. "
Easy
Worry
Bold
" Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price. "
Sometimes
Nothing
High
" One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel. "
Israel
Fair
Judge
" People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes. "
Reality
Eyes
People
" Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters. "
Permanent
Presence
Letters
" The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity. "
Time
Moving
Moment
" The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate. "
Hate
Me
People
" There are two types of stories: public and private. "
Types
Private
Public
" There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. "
Prize
Book
Better
" The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you. "
Before
People
You
" When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery. "
Situation
Short
Powerful
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