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Quotes by Writer
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."
28
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
28
"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."
27
"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."
27
"A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000."
27
"Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for."
27
"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
27
"Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious."
26
"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
26
"Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakespeare is that his historical plays don't bear anything other than a basic resemblance to history."
25
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
25
"I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society."
25
"In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice."
25
"Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience."
25
"Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank."
25
"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."
25
"After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city."
25
"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."
25
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
25
"Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric."
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24
"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
24
"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
24
"We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child."
24
"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."
24
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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