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Quotes by Writer
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
92
"A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man."
Man,
91
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
91
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
91
"I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up."
90
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
89
"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."
88
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
87
"It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people."
85
"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion."
84
"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
83
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
82
"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
82
"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
81
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
81
"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties."
80
"Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness."
79
"Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way."
78
"Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts."
78
"Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition."
76
"Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing."
76
"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."
76
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
76
"Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?"
75
"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
75
"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
75
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