Quote by Jose Saramago
I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost

I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago

Other quotes by Jose Saramago

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

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Attitude
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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. – Jose Saramago

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Society
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I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. – Mira Sorvino

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An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring. – Mario Vazquez

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Say and do something positive that will help the situation it doesnt take any brains to complain. – Robert A. Cook

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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. – Franz Kafka

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