"I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Mario Benedetti

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“If you fall in love with somebody you're working with, fine, but wait till your project is over.”
“The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.”
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,”

Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
“I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.”
“Hellraisers destroy only themselves, and they do it because they love life too much to fall asleep.”

Source : Will Ferguson (2002). “Happiness”
“Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own...Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.”
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

Source : Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.35, New World Library
“There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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