"I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work."
-Jose Saramago
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"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.“
-Jose Saramago
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"I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet."
-Jose Saramago
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"I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are."
-Jose Saramago
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"Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought."
-Jose Saramago
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"I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined."
-Jose Saramago
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"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties."
-Jose Saramago
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"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."
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"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."
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"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
-Viktor E. Frankl
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"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
-Victor Hugo
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"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
-Winston Churchill
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"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
-Oscar Wilde
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