When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
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Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
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As a writer, I've always been interested in others.
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Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
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Ini adalah tugas para intelektual dan penulis untuk meragukan kesempurnaan.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.