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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"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."
"Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life."
"If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast-I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people-perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven-but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination."
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."
"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."
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
"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."
"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
"There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it."
"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 came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
"One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time."
"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."
"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
"I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind."
"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
"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."
"God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't."
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."
"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."
"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."
"It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement."
"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."
"What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?"
"My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets."
"We are our memory,we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes,that pile of broken mirrors."
"I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done."
"I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away."
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"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."
"In my time, you needed to speak a little Italian, and that was it."
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