“The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.”
― For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
― For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction
“You can only cruise the boulevards of regret so far, and then you've got to get back up onto the freeway again.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“A ideologia é a negação tácita ou efectiva da atitude e da metodologia científicas - a sua pretensa ou real «superação» do que à ciência, e só a ciência concerne; a história, enquanto ciência, nega-se ao que na ideologia se contém; o historiador, todavia, coabita com o cidadão - e como é que este se pode esquivar, como tal, às influências e às opções de carácter ideológico? A cidadania do homem-historiador anularia, pois, ou tenderia a anular, a objectividade que a sua ciência postula e exige como estatuto da sua própria existência?”
― Emigração portuguesa: sondagem histórica
― Emigração portuguesa: sondagem histórica
“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
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“I am a socialist, a nihilist, a republican, anything that is anti-reactionary!... I want to turn everything upside down to see what lies beneath; I believe we are so webbed, so horribly regimented, that no spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits, and then we can start afresh...”
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