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Mia Couto
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“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”
“In war, the poor are killed. In peace, the poor dies.”
“There is only a way of escape from a place: is leaving ourselves. There is only a way of leaving ourselves: is loving someone. Só há um modo de escapar de um lugar: é sairmos de nós. Só há um modo de sairmos de nós: é amarmos alguém.”
“The greatest poverty is the inability to dream.”
“We do not inherit only a country. We inherit the responsibility to imagine it.”
“Every language carries a way of seeing the world.”
“Writing is not about giving answers. It is about learning how to ask better questions.”
“A writer does not create a world; he discovers the worlds hidden inside people.”
Mia Couto (born 1955) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mia Couto, interview with UOL TAB, 2018.
“The language of the other, suddenly, is the great instrument for creating an identity of one's own.”
Mia Couto (born 1955) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mia Couto, interview published by the Feira do Livro / Câmara Municipal de Campinas, 2017.
“Identity can only be spoken of in the plural.”
Mia Couto (born 1955) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mia Couto, interview published by the Feira do Livro / Câmara Municipal de Campinas, 2017.