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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"Patriotism, that least discerning of pas."
"There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again,There is a street close by forbidden to my feet,There's a mirror that's seen me for the very last time,There is a door that I have locked till the end of the world.Among the books in my library (I have them before me)There are some that I shall never open now.This summer I complete my fiftieth year;Death is gnawing at me ceaselessly."
"Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?"
"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely."
"Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich."
"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."
"The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds."
"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."
"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."
"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
"For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make."
"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."
"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."
"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"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."
"The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"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."
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"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."
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
"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."
"I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech."
"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?"
"All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them."
"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."
"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 ."
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
"An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition."
"Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy."
"In my soul the afternoon grows wider and I reflect."
"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows."
"I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value."
"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
"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'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
"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."
"I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done."
"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."
"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."
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