“Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.”
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Americans have discovered fear.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.