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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

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A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

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It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

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The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

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Biography

Nationality: Portuguese

Type: Writer

Born: November 16th, 1922

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