“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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“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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“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
Author: Jose Saramago
Category: society
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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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“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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“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.”
— Jose Saramago
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“Americans have discovered fear.”
— Jose Saramago
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