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Brief about Jose Saramago: By info that we know Jose Saramago was born at 1922-11-16. And also Jose Saramago is Portuguese Writer.

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I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

Tags: Able, Travel, Work

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

Tags: Perhaps, Secret, Write

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Tags: Rather, Started, Write

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Tags: Language, Making, Might

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Tags: Alien, Attitude, Others

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

Tags: Novel, Sea, Space

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas.

Tags: Ideas, Left, Problem

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Tags: Control, Military, Needs

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

Tags: Plenty, Put, Reasons

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Tags: Human, Machines, Stop

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

Tags: American, Forget, Positive

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

Tags: Give, Law, Won

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Tags: Political, Revolution, Thinking

Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

Tags: Him, Someone, Wanted

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Tags: Government, Reality, Rich

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

Tags: Beginning, Revolution, Work

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Tags: Another, Change, Last

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Tags: America, Bad, Consider

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations.

Tags: Possible, Short, Unless

Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.

Tags: Job, Time, Worth
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