Jose Saramago Quotes
The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard.
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All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
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Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.
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The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.
