Top 29 Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes

#1. The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

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#2. The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

Seth

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#3. Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

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#4. People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

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#5. I have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country.

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#6. Moderation is an attempt to live within one's emotional means.

Marty Rubin

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#7. The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

Eugene V. Debs

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#8. Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.

Nora Roberts

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#9. I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.

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#10. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

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#11. There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

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#12. Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It's not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

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#13. Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

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#14. I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

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#15. Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

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#16. Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again.

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#17. A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

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#18. As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

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#19. Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.

Janet Morris

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#20. The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

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#21. One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

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#22. An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new.

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#23. words, literature, are not in the consciousness of the person who writes but in his fingers and the paper and the typewriter, just like the statues of Michelangelo were in the block of marble where they were revealed.

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#24. Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

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#25. The worth of a prize depends on the people who have received it before you.

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#26. There are two types of stories: public and private.

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#27. A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

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#28. If, as a Spaniard, I am so often offended by the stereotypes that abound regarding my country, how can I accept and repeat the ones that fall even more heavily upon Israel?

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#29. Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.

Anne Sexton

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