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Julio Cortazar quotes

Argentinian Writer August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984

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Julio Cortazar quote: "Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at..."
Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. Julio Cortazar
Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface. Julio Cortazar
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? Julio Cortazar
The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects. Julio Cortazar
I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order. Julio Cortazar
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance? something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order. Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar quote: "I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing..."
I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in alldirections... Julio Cortazar
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. Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar quote: "Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in..."
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. Julio Cortazar
In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). Julio Cortazar
One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard, as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth. Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar quote: "I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but..."
I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar quote: "We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd..."
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. Julio Cortazar
Julio Cortazar quote: "The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters,..."
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. Julio Cortazar
Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut. Julio Cortazar

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