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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have."
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
"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."
"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
"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."
"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."
"I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with."
"Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
"Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time."
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
"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 travel a lot to promote the perfumes and to do the commercials."
"I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket."
"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
"It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement."
"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 believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing."
"I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
"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."
"Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich."
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."
"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."
"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."
"I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away."
"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
"I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind."
"If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life."
"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."
"I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work."
"We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country."
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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