42 Quotes by Jorge Amado

They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment Nacib did not love her. He did not hate her either. He beat her mechanically, as if to relax his nerves from the tension of suffering. He was empty like a vase without a flower. He felt a pain in his heart as if someone were slowly pushing a dagger into it. He felt neither hate nor love. Just pain" (366).

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

Господь улыбается, как негритенок. («Генералы песчаных карьеров»)

En las plantaciones, los trabajadores casan hasta con un pedazo de palo si viste polleras. Para tener mujer en casa, para poder acostarse con ella, también para poder conversar. La mujer presta muchos servicios, usted ni siquiera se imagina. Ayuda hasta en la pollítica. Le da hijos a uno, impone respeto. Para lo demás, están las mujerzuelas

Pelópidas's father, a collateral descendant, inherited only the name and the aristocratic habit of not working.

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

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 have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

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