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When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability. Jose Mourinho

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I need my time to be lonely. Jose Mourinho

Time Lonely My Time Need

I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think. Jose Mourinho

You Yourself Better Job Lose Think Too Worried Way Pressures Feel Makes Any Afraid Different Express Express Yourself Different Way

In football, the only game I know is the 90-minutes game. It's not mind games; I don't try to do that. Jose Mourinho

Game Try Mind Only Football Know Games

The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters. Jose Mourinho

Game Feelings Important Before Characters Touch Supporters Period Course Opinions Opponents Influence Personalities Use Players

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

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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

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