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.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. - 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 Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing a… - 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 a…
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. - Mario Benedetti
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. - Mario Benedetti
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle. - Mario Benedetti
We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general. - Mario Benedetti
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.
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
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. - Mario Benedetti
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. - Mario Benedetti
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
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