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Jorge Amado quotes: Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Jorge Amado quotes: Lovethe most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Love
the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Jorge Amado quotes: Life was good, one had only to live it.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Jorge Amado quotes: I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Jorge Amado quotes: Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Jorge Amado quotes: I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

Jorge Amado quotes: She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385)

She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385)

Jorge Amado quotes: The world is like that incomprehensible and full of surprises .

The world is like that
incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Jorge Amado quotes: But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.

But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.

Jorge Amado quotes: Love is not to be proven or measured ... It exists, and that is enough.

Love is not to be proven or measured ... It exists, and that is enough.

Jorge Amado quotes: Night was running ahead of itself.

Night was running ahead of itself.

Jorge Amado quotes: The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.

Jorge Amado quotes: I said there are certain flowers that wilt if you put them in a vase' (368).

I said there are certain flowers that wilt if you put them in a vase' (368).