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Although I Never Marched Through The Streets Shouting For Mao, I Do Believe That The Liberation Of China At The End Of The 1940s Was A Wonderful Thing And To Provide Its People With A Billion Pairs Of Shoes And Trousers Was A Fantastic Achievement.

Go To Mozambique! As Long As You Don't Expect To Find Flawless Infrastructure, Just Go. Because This Is A Country Where People Have Not Quite Grown Accustomed To Tourists. You Still Feel A Genuineness That No Longer Exists In Countries Where Tourism Has Been Industrially Developed.

As A Writer, I Am An Intellectual. I Believe In The Ideals Of The Enlightenment, I Believe In The Written Word, In Dialogue And In Truth. I Hate Lies More Than Anything Else. Most Of The Time I React By Writing.

When I Was A Very Young Author, I Knew I Needed To Build Myself A Tower Outside Of Europe. Like When You're A Hunter, And Build Towers To Watch The Animals Move. I Knew I Would Never Understand The World Without That Perspective. I Came To Africa For That Rational Reason, Although I Love Mozambique Now.

I Do Not Understand How On Earth You Can Become A Writer Without Seeing The World.