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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. ”
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country. ”
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train. ”
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable. ”
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming. ”
I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way. ”
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. ”
Various political parties, even if they're in direct opposition with one another, still say they are the spokesperson for the people. The writer must speak his own words and not get mixed up with politics. ”
Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual. ”
I was born Chinese, and I write in Chinese. I don't think there's any need to evade this... to a writer, as to a person, what matters is not his political label or his nationality, but whether he is a person and whether his work is worth looking at. ”