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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet."
"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst."
"An agreement cannot be the result of an imposition."
"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting."
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."
"I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job."
"I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized."
"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."
"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
"I want not, that everybody hears about. Then I can't longer be myself."
"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
"All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people."
"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 a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows."
"God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with."
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."
"Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence."
"One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
"We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices."
"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."
"Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages."
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