Quotes About Julio Cortazar

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

I teach fiction in my workshops, and some of the readings could be classified as horror. For example, 'House Taken Over,' a short story by Julio Cortazar, is a work I regularly teach.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that's what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by the memory of the frescoes of Giotto in Padua.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Por lo demás hay que ser imbécil, hay que ser poeta, hay que estar en la luna de Valencia para perder más de cinco minutos con estas nostalgias perfectamente liquidables a corto plazo.

Gulp –dijeron la sopa y Manuel en estrecha alianza, rota instantáneamente por un ataque de tos que los proyectó en direcciones opuestas.

oír el fragor de la luna apoyando contra su oreja la palma de una pequeña mano un poco húmeda por el amor o por una taza de té.

I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.

Receava, particularmente, a forma mais sutil da gratidão, que se torna carinho canino; não queria que a liberdade, a única roupa que caía bem na Maga, se perdesse numa feminilidade diligente.