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I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
Jose Saramago
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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?
Jose Saramago -
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
Jose Saramago -
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago -
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
Jose Saramago -
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 -
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
Jose Saramago
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What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
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At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.
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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
Jose Saramago -
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