40 phrases by Jorge Amado to delve into the universe of the Bahian writer

In life only love and friendship are worth. The rest is all prudery, it’s all presumption, it’s not worth it.

I think the real writer is the one who writes about what he lived through.

Even though they didn’t know it was love, they felt it was good.

Freedom is like the sun. It is the greatest good in the world.

Capitalism remains the same fragile and unjust system, producing wars, misery, based on profit, on the lust for money. These are very miserable reasons.

Love is not proved or measured. There is, that’s enough. The fact of not understanding or explaining something does not end it. I know nothing about the stars, but I see them in the sky, they are the beauty of the night.

Love is always sweet and good, even when death is near.

Because now he knows that she will shine for him among a thousand stars in the unique sky of the black city.

More powerful is the people who overcome and overcome limitations, face the terrible conditions of life and march forward into the future.

We have no greater and more inalienable right than the right to dream. The only one that no dictator can reduce or exterminate.

Brave men have a star for their hearts. But no one ever heard of a woman who had a star in her chest, like a flower.

That’s not a woman, it’s an Ash Wednesday, it ends with everyone’s joy.

In the depths of his heart he felt sorry for everyone’s misfortune. And laughing, and scoffing, it was that he fled from his disgrace. It was like medicine.

In front of him was the mysterious city, and he set out to conquer it. The city of Bahia, black and religious, is almost as mysterious as the green of the sea.

In Europe, they call me a mestre, but it’s walking through the streets of Salvador that I feel at ease.

Because the revolution is a homeland and a family.

Also Maneca Dantas doesn’t know why these people cheat on their husbands, with so much danger, they still have the luxury of writing love letters. Idiot thing.

Old age sucks.

Our elites are, in fact, extremely prejudiced, they do not deserve much attention.

I was young, I still didn’t believe in the impossible.

I believe she has the kind of magic that sparks revolutions and promotes great discoveries. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

What does it matter to die when you go in search of your loved one, when love awaits you?

The adaptation of a literary work for television, cinema or theater is a violence against the author.

But as long as there is misery, as long as there is a Third World, you can be sure, my friend, that there will be no peace in the world.

No critic teaches anyone how to make a novel.

His heart beats so, so much, he squeezes it with his hand.

The writer, in my view, must be committed to his time and his people.

Miracle of love has no explanation, no need.

The university degree is an anti-social and extremely elitist instrument.

Poetry is not in the verses, sometimes it is in the heart. And it’s such. To the point of not being able to fit into words.

I still firmly think about changing the world and I think that literature is of great importance.

Luck accompanies me, my body is closed to envy, intrigue doesn’t tie my feet, I’m immune to the evil eye.

For me, sex has always been a party. At 82 years old, the party is very different from what it was at 20, at 50, even at 60: it is a party that is made of experience, of refinement.

To do something that doesn’t amuse me, I have to make a very big effort.

I keep tapping with two fingers and making a lot of mistakes. I must say that I am one of the most incapable men in the world. The list of my disabilities is huge.

First World countries need to understand that cities like Salvador must also be preserved, not just Rome or Paris.

An 80-year-old writer is starting to learn to write.

There may be a lot of deficiency in a young man’s book, but there will also be something fundamental in it: the strength of youth.

I’m very optimistic, a lot. Brazil is a country with enormous strength. We are a continent, my love. We are not a little country, we are a continent, with an extraordinary people.