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Though I had come into the wo...

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time.

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I was born in a family of lan...

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

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I am a better novelist than a...

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Words were not given to man i...

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

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The period that I could consi...

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

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I never appreciated 'positive...

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

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To continue living, we have t...

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

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The painter paints, the music...

The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because of the fact that one is an artist, but because we are citizens.

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I presume that nobody will de...

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

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Can you imagine what Bush wou...

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

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Death is present every day in...

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

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The wisest man I ever knew in...

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

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Americans have discovered the...

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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I am a person with leftist co...

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

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I think the novel is not so m...

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

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It is economic power that det...

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

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Perhaps it is the language th...

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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I think we are blind. Blind p...

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

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The world had already changed...

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

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I always ask two questions: H...

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....