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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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Words were not given to man i...

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

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

I am a better novelist than a...

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

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

In the end, I am quite normal...

In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Being fired was the best luck ...

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

The attitude of insolent haugh...

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

I am traveling less in order t...

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Society has to change, but the...

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

I presume that nobody will den...

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Abstention means you stayed at...

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

I had no books at home. I star...

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.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Americans have discovered fear...

Americans have discovered fear.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

It takes little or nothing to ...

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

Everything in this world can v...

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

There is nothing healthier for...

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

Jose Saramago 218 quotes

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