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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."
"Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks."
"When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God."
"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are."
"I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence."
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
"I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships."
"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."
"Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do."
"I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction."
"I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone."
"In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?"
"It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it."
"That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day."
"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
"In general, every country has the language it deserves."
"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it."
"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."
"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality."
"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"
"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel."
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor."
"The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator."
"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict."
"The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well."
"It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that."
"Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it."
"Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life."
"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future."
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it."
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
"You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well."
"Everything has changed. When I was at school and was told I had better learn English, I said: What for? The English are a hell of a long way away!"
"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs."
"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade."
"US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan."
"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."
"Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying."
"I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people."
"Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned."
"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood."
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams."
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
"Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed."
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."
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