Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Mario Benedetti

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Uruguayan novelist Mario Benedetti.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.

Uruguayan - Novelist | September 14, 1920 - May 17, 2009

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An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Mario Benedetti

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Mario Benedetti

I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Mario Benedetti

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Mario Benedetti

I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.

Mario Benedetti

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Mario Benedetti

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Mario Benedetti

An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Mario Benedetti

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Mario Benedetti

Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

Mario Benedetti

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Mario Benedetti

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Mario Benedetti

We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.

Mario Benedetti

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Mario Benedetti