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Jose Saramago

Portuguese

November 16, 1922

Writer

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Americans have discovered fear.

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Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.

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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

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

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

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

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When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

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Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

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Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

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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.

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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.

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I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

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At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

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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.

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I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

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