Camilo Jose Cela Quotes

It is not difficult to write in Spanish; the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express: the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.

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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

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Things are always best seen when they are a trifle mixed-up, a trifle disordered; the chilly administrative neatness of museums and filing cases, of statistics and cemeteries, is an inhuman and antinatural kind of order; it is, in a word, disorder.

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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

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The leading figure in Spain's literary renewal during the post-war era.

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