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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."
"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."
"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."
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
"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."
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
"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 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."
"I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value."
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
"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."
"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."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
"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."
"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go ."
"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
"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."
"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."
"Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land."
"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?"
"My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets."
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
"I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it."
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court."
"What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people."
"The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing."
"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."
"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
"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?"
"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
"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."
"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."
"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"
"Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow."
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
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