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"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
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"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."
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