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Mario Benedetti [1920-2009] Uruguayan

Rank: 105
Novelist, Journalist

Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia, known as Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del 45.

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When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.		101
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.		102
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.		103
I do not write for the reader to come, but for him who is here, short of reading the text on my shoulder.		104
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.		105
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.		106
The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.		107

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