Julio Cortazar Quotes - Page 3

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• Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

  Julio Cortazar

  Important, Literature, Virtue

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• The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

  Julio Cortazar

  Space, Allies, Story Writers

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• You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

  Julio Cortazar

  Mean, Thinking, Museums

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• 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.

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  Order, Rupture, Surprise

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• I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

  Julio Cortazar

  Expression, Focus, Cameras

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• I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.

  Julio Cortazar

  Thinking, People, Rabbits

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