5 Quotes & Sayings By Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado, born in Alagoas, Brazil, was a Portuguese-Brazilian author. He wrote a number of novels, regarded as some of the greatest works in Brazilian literature. Amado's works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have been made into several feature films. His best-known works include Maria do Passa-muro (1939), O Povo do Fogo (1942), Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1948), Gabriela, Uma Fera na Selva (1955), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1957), The Land of the War God (1967), The Mango Tree (1975) and O Cangaceiro (1988).

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Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em! Jorge Amado
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Life was good, one had only to live it. Jorge Amado
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He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future. Jorge Amado
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Friends, we have a hero living among us. Jorge Amado