Ana María Matute's most beautiful quotes
The top 3 according to 37 votes from people: Sometimes I think I fell from another galaxy. · Childhood is not a stage of life: it is a complete, autonomous world, poetic and also cruel, but never soppy. · I would find it truly discourteous if God did not exist.. (Updated Dec 4, 2021.)
"Making people cry is the only sin I believe in", "Childhood is not a stage of life: it is a complete world" and "A book does not exist until someone reads it": the most quoted lines of Spanish novelist Ana María Matute, from her interviews and Forgotten King Gudú, with the source of each.
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Top 13
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Sometimes I think I fell from another galaxy.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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Childhood is not a stage of life: it is a complete, autonomous world, poetic and also cruel, but never soppy.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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I would find it truly discourteous if God did not exist.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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A book does not exist until someone reads it. And no one ever reads the same book.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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In the novel I say that sometimes childhood is longer than life.
On Paraíso inhabitado (2008), in La Razón.
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I believe in women writers, but not in women's literature, because I don't believe in men's literature either.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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Making people cry is the only sin I believe in.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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Writing is always protesting, even if only against oneself.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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The word is what saves us.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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If I had not been able to share in the world of fairy tales and invent my own worlds, I would have died.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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The worst thing in this world is to survive.
Collected by ABC Cultura in "Las frases de Ana María Matute" (24 November 2010).
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While intelligence has a limit, stupidity and malice have no visible or reachable bottom.
Forgotten King Gudú (1996).
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Time heals everything, but it also burns everything.
Interview in El Correo.
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