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Night was running ahead of itself.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Running
Night
Ahead
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Life was good, one had only to live it.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
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I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Character
Female
Sometimes
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Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Terrible
Wonderful
World
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The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .
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Surprise
World
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Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Enough
Love Is
Proven
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The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Translations
Author
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That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Forever
Love Is
Passion
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I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Importance
Worth It
Brazilian
Illusions
Reflects
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Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Believe
Might
Writing
Time Change Today
Believed
Change Time Today
Longer
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I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Character
Hero
People
Life Character I Am
Brazilian
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...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Documentaries
Eye
Proof
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I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.
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Believe
Discovery
Flower
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I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office
Jorge Amado / Film Writer
Father
Husband
School
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He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.
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Dream
Memories
Sadness
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