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An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

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One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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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.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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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.

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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.

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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.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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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.

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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.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Writer

Born: January 10th, 1956

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