Quotes by Julio Cortazar

Julio Cortazar

One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

Children

Eye

Zero

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Break

Break Out

Infinite

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Dream

Play

Sometimes

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Cooking

Food

World

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

Life

Opposites

Writing

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

Reality

Skills

Stories

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

Loss

Perfection

Writing

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death’s best weapons.

Evolution

Habit

Weapons

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

Order

Rupture

Surprise

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

Machines

Mean

Stories

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Absurd

Age

Allies

Aquariums

Attention

Beats

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Born

Break

Break Out

Bunnies

Cameras

Cat

Children

Citing

Clay

Color

Compass

Continuity Of Life

Cooking

Creation

Cutting

Deceiving

Depth

Destruction

Dies

Distraction

Doe

Doors

Dream

Drug

Duration

Echoes

Eden

Etcetera

Evolution

Expectations

Expression

Eye

Feelings

Focus

Food

Games

Habit

Heaven

Helping

Hopscotch

Hours

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Quotes by Julio Cortazar

Julio Cortazar

One of the many ways of contesting level-zero, and one of the best, is to take photographs, an activity in which one should start becoming adept very early in life, teach it to children since it requires discipline, aesthetic education, a good eye and steady fingers.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death’s best weapons.

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

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