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Julio Cortazar has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair,…
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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
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The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
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Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
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What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much…
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There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them at the aquarium at…
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Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
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When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
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Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.
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The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.
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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so…
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The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
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I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will…
— Harry S. Truman
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The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
— Edmund Barton
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We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill him out.
— Denis Kearney
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A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never…
— Tom Stoppard
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The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss…
— Julio Cortazar
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At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a…
— Astrid Lindgren
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Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
— Denis Kearney
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Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
— Roy Bean
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