Jose Saramago Quotes
A Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist.
(1922 - 2010)
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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.
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Americans have discovered fear.
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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
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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?
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
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I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
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I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.
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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
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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.
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I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
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In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
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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.
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