Julio Cortazar Thoughts
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I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.
I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.
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?
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
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.
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I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.
The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.