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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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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Home
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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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best
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. – William Cowper

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Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. – David Hockney

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positive

It was a very emotional dinner… Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive. – Lil Kim

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For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation it is a specific form of interaction. – Georg Simmel

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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that were not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. – Patricia Ireland

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I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. – Rachel Weisz

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I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I dont quite know how to explain it but its there. These cant be the only notes in the world, theres got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. – Marvin Gaye

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