"I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon."

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Jose Saramago

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“I worry that I may have overstated the impact of Civil War on the utopians. By the time the Civil War comes, most of the communities were quite separated from the wider American society. Their rhetoric is still about transforming the world, but they're not having that much traffic with their neighbors.”

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“Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.”
“I'm just very keen to have a family and both Catherine and I, you know, are looking forward to having a family in the future.”
“Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a way, the shared world stuff has a high floor but a ceiling.”
“Novel writing is like ***** addiction; it takes everything you've got.”
“We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.”

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“Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.”
“Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

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