"The novel is not so much a literary……" — Jose Saramago

"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."

— Jose Saramago

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142 Quotes by Jose Saramago

Jose Saramago has 142 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We…
Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land…
This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say…
doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time
A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In…
Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the…
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not…
Each day is a little bit of history
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos…
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand…
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want…

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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art… — Saint Augustine
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think… — Roger Bannister
The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City. — Mario Batali
I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank? — Milton Berle
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it… — Halle Berry
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of… — Theodore Bikel
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the… — William Blake
All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where… — Alain de Botton
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the… — Ray Bradbury
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds… — Jo Brand
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. — David Brinkley

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