Jose Saramago Quotes
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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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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From evening soaps to preteen romances, the message is that inner values are for losers.
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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.
