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Jose Saramago

Portuguese Writer

Born: Nov 16, 1922

Died: Jun 18, 2010

Am Life People Will Work World

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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. Jose Saramago

Obligation Citizen Become Changes Intervene Citizens Involved Who Things

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. Jose Saramago

Problem Ideas Without Govern Left Any Right Need

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. Jose Saramago

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. Jose Saramago

Life Death Generation Humanity Nothing Living Dramatic About Except Continue Loses Die Going After Story

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. Jose Saramago

Positive Heroes Exhausted Doubt Way More Uncertainty Never Raw Raw Material Almost Until Cliches Because Always Material Provides Perplexity Model Just Just Because Literary Literature Prefer Really Productive Copies Humans Appreciated

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. Jose Saramago

Work Result November Important Beginning Revolution Consider Way About Could Developed Most Coup Period Also Came The Most Important Literary Literary Work Certain Certain Way Consequence

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is. Jose Saramago

World Plenty Put Up Reasons

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story. Jose Saramago

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. Jose Saramago

Secret Write Perhaps Am Just

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. Jose Saramago

Attitude Alien Others Relationships Characteristic Insolent American Form Them

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been. Jose Saramago

Convictions Always Am Been Leftist Person

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there? Jose Saramago

Americans have discovered fear. Jose Saramago

Fear Discovered American

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die. Jose Saramago

Living Only Discover Condition End Die In The End

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. Jose Saramago

Best Lose Everything Content Times

Though I had come into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later, on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not having registered my birth at the proper legal time. Jose Saramago

Time Family Legal World November Thanks Petty Birth Later Though Fraud Fine Born Proper Having Had Days Come Documents Escaped Official Registered Show Paying Two

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year. Jose Saramago

Good Class Writing School Mistakes Single Year Spelling Pupil Classes Primary Primary School Were Done Second Fourth Third Second-Class

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