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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few."
"Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that."
"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms."
"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
"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."
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
"I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them."
"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
"What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people."
"I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value."
"Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop."
"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
"It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard."
"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
"Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow."
"In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects."
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
"An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition."
"Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?"
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."
"When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany."
"I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse."
"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court."
"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
"I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing."
"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"
"There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star."
"I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away."
"I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it."
"The driver of a racing car is a component. When I first began, I used to grip the steering wheel firmly, and I changed gear so hard that I damaged my hand."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."
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