The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.
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I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.Jose Saramago
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.
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I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.
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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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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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