“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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“A literatura é um processo de libertação e, por conseguinte, aspira à liberdade. Quer dizer que o seu ponto de partida é uma recusa aos constrangimentos. Quer dizer, ainda, que os constrangimentos estão na sua génese ou no desencadear da sua explosão, como tem sido proclamado por tantos criadores.”
― Jornal Sem Data
― Jornal Sem Data
“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
“It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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