For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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