What good is a writer if he can't destro... | Julio Cortazar

Destruction Writer

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?

- Julio Cortazar

Other quotes by Julio Cortazar

Idea

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?

- Julio Cortazar

Absurdity

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

- Julio Cortazar

Dreams

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.

- Julio Cortazar

Future

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

- Julio Cortazar

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Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

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