Best Julio Cortazar Quotes
- (memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation. According
- Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our… According
- Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you… Ability
- The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is… Another Level
- The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum… Accomplish
- I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. Into
- Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the… Alone
- We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… Absence
- The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. Believe
- Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. Dictionary
- All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. All
- I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not… Described
- Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is… Chance
- Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life. Believe
- But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and… Adjectives
- Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us. Come Sleep
- Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk… Blush
- La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as… Along
- You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're… Etienne
- What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if… Beatrice
- As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in… Bolt
- Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera. All
- And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation? Accept