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

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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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, youre saying you have a political conscience but you dont agree with any of the existing parties. – Jose Saramago

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Home
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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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Other Quotes from
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With everything thats thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work – whatever – basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that. – Sean Paul

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What none of the critics, positive or negative, grasped was that The Searchers was a different kind of Western, something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare. – Glenn Frankel

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positive

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. – Vito Fossella

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positive

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm. – George Osborne

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Random Quotes

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless. – Anne Lamott

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. – Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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Flowers

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. Ive been working with them for a year. – Anatoli Boukreev

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Travel

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue – Natalie Clifford Barney

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