Jose Saramago
Jose Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago, GColSE, was a Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works, some of which can be seen as allegories, commonly present subversive perspectives on historic events, emphasizing the human factor. Harold Bloom described Saramago as "the greatest living novelist" and considers him to be "a permanent part of the Western canon", while James Wood praises "the distinctive tone to his fiction because he narrates his novels as if he were someone...
NationalityPortuguese
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 November 1922
CountryPortugal
The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and in the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we are verbally trying to deny.
We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.
Oh, I'm not just going too far, I've arrived.
...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.
Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world...