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Julio Cortazar Quotes

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? Picture Quote #1

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? and us... What good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? Picture Quote #1

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks Picture Quote #1

You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are worth while but it hurts Picture Quote #1

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut Picture Quote #1

We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other Picture Quote #1

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Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape Picture Quote #1

And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence Picture Quote #1

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard Picture Quote #1

It's impossible to want what I want and in the shape I want it, and share life with others besides. I had to know how to be alone and how to let so much wanting do its work, save me or destroy me Picture Quote #1

Thus they went along, punch and judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune Picture Quote #1

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists Picture Quote #1

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Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life Picture Quote #1

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are Picture Quote #1

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate Picture Quote #1

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word Picture Quote #1

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice Picture Quote #1

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe Picture Quote #1

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I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often Picture Quote #1

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order Picture Quote #1

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means Picture Quote #1

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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? (Julio Cortazar Quotes) What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? and us... What good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks (Julio Cortazar Quotes) You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are worth while but it hurts (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut (Julio Cortazar Quotes) We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape (Julio Cortazar Quotes) And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence (Julio Cortazar Quotes) As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard (Julio Cortazar Quotes) It's impossible to want what I want and in the shape I want it, and share life with others besides. I had to know how to be alone and how to let so much wanting do its work, save me or destroy me (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Thus they went along, punch and judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are (Julio Cortazar Quotes) All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate (Julio Cortazar Quotes) Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word (Julio Cortazar Quotes) The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice (Julio Cortazar Quotes) For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe (Julio Cortazar Quotes) I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often (Julio Cortazar Quotes) The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order (Julio Cortazar Quotes) The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means (Julio Cortazar Quotes)

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