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Author - Julio Cortázar
Quotes by : Julio Cortázar
europe
All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not,....
absurdity
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
genre
An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the....
love
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you....
writing
I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.
attention
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless....
story
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine....
memory
(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness....
words
Explanation is a well-dressed error.
life
In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills....
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