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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. – Jose Saramago

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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. – Jose Saramago

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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. – Jose Saramago

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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. – Jose Saramago

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