Top 22 Benedetti Quotes
#1. Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
Vera Wang
#2. somehow, he had never taken advantage of it.
Ayn Rand
#4. I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.
Rand Paul
#7. I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
Mario Benedetti
#8. In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds
Mario Benedetti
#10. I have high hopes for the book and have already made a down payment on a Ferrari. Well, it's actually a small metal model of a Ferrari, kind of like a Dinky Toy, but a little bit bigger.
Paul Benedetti
#12. The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
Mario Benedetti
#13. It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be based on good intentions or natural talent. First and foremost there must be a spirit of sacrifice.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
#14. My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
Mario Benedetti
#15. I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
Mario Benedetti
#16. Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Mario Benedetti
#17. If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Jean Racine
#18. We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
Mario Benedetti
#19. An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
Mario Benedetti
#20. I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.
Mario Benedetti
#21. No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.
John Legend
#22. When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
Mario Benedetti
