Portuguese - Writer | November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
Jose Saramago
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People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
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Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
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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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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 do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
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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 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 a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.
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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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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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