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Quotes by Writer
"The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics."
139
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."
136
"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
136
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
133
"I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City."
133
"If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time."
131
"Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard."
131
"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."
131
"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."
130
"You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through."
130
"Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing."
129
"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."
127
"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
127
"I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance."
Want,
125
"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
125
"I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down."
125
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
124
"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
124
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
123
"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."
123
"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it."
123
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
122
"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."
121
"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."
121
"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice."
Life,
121
"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
120
"A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
120
"Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way."
119
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