Quotes by : Julio Cortázar

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind....

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are....

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature....

The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise....

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

you have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things areworth while but it....

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored....

I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person....