“ In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By r… Julio Cortazar
“ The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects. Julio Cortazar
“ The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. Julio Cortazar
“ For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. Julio Cortazar
“ Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature Julio Cortazar
“ The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible… Julio Cortazar
“ All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not, their writing carries baggage from an immense and almost frightening tradition; they accept that tradit… Julio Cortazar
“ Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make… Julio Cortazar
“ We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experien… Julio Cortazar
“ All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate. Julio Cortazar
“ I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred mi… Julio Cortazar
“ Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is always better hidden, more re(g)al. The poem’s power is as an instr… Julio Cortazar
“ Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. Julio Cortazar
“ Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa. Julio Cortazar
“ Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo. Julio Cortazar
