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" When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die. "

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" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. "

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" The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe. "

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" You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. "

" I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. "

" Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.' "

" I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. "

" How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide! "

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" I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. "

" The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. "

" Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. "

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" I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. "

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" I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics. "

" The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. "

" War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation. "

" Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. "

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