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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

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
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
Idea

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

- Julio Cortazar

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The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

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Destruction

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

- Owen D. Young
Destruction

To the contrary, I believe the U.S. military has already done all that has been asked of them. Saddam Hussein is on trial. The threat from alleged weapons of mass destruction programs in Iraq has been neutralized.

- Peter DeFazio
Destruction Now Nothing

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

- Lester B. Pearson
Destruction

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

- Henry Cabot Lodge