“Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?” IfsLittlesWantedPiecesImagineLandMilitaryPlantFlagsChavezVenezuelans Author:Jose Saramago
“This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.” MeanCertainFourSensesGhost Author:Jose Saramago
“doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time” LongDoubtLong TimePrivilege Author:Jose Saramago
“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.” PeopleRealityGovernmentFormRichIllusionDemocraticHymnsPlutocracy Author:Jose Saramago
“Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in the yard, one by one, embracing them and crying because he knew he wouldn't see them again. To truly appreciate life we must remember that nothing lasts for ever and take nothing we enjoy for granted. In so doing we stay grateful and happy for all our good fortune.” SaidStoriesFeelingsLastsRememberEnjoyTreeCryGratitudeAppreciateGratefulFortuneGrantedGoodbyeGrandfatherYardsGood FortuneMy GrandfatherAppreciate LifeSwine Author:Jose Saramago
“In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.” WritingEndsSufferingHabitNormalCreatingPagesBlockOddBlankAnguishWriter's BlockBlank Pages Author:Jose Saramago
“En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.” AtheistPersonaDioSoy Author:Jose Saramago
“Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...” PeopleLifeInspirationalMatterReasonReadingSidesInspirational LifePagesRiversStonesShoreStepping StonesFlowing River Author:Jose Saramago
“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.” WorldWantStatesLawUnitedUnited StatesIraqUsaJungleOld And New Author:Jose Saramago
