Mario Benedetti Quotes

#1. The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Mario Benedetti

#2. When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Mario Benedetti

#3. I've been gay since the day I was born.

Andy Cohen

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. A thought is of a much higher value than an action.

Harshit Walia

#7. There was always something about our family, and I don't mean color--there was something about us that impeded you. You think like a prisoner. You do, Coleman Brutus. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.

Philip Roth

#8. We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

Mario Benedetti

#9. Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Mario Benedetti

#10. 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

#11. My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Mario Benedetti

#12. Your mother doesn't make mistakes." I hear her blow out the smoke. "Baby, I know what I'm doing.

Holly Black

#13. There's no way to slow it down now it has begun.

Karen Foxlee

#14. After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Mario Benedetti

#15. In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

Mario Benedetti

#16. 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

#17. Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

Mario Benedetti

#18. Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Mario Benedetti

#19. Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time,

Ray Bradbury

#20. A confession: solitude no longer hurt me.

Mario Benedetti

#21. Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Jane Austen