“We cannot be naive: the literature book will not solve poverty by itself”
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Chilean author and editor 1983Related quotes
“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve.'”
Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
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“Housing is the key to solve different issues, including poverty and youth development.”
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“…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.”
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"The Case for the Ephemeral"
All Things Considered (1908)
Context: I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last moment; they were handed in the moment before it was too late, and I do not think that our commonwealth would have been shaken to its foundations if they had been handed in the moment after. They must go out now, with all their imperfections on their head, or rather on mine; for their vices are too vital to be improved with a blue pencil, or with anything I can think of, except dynamite.
Their chief vice is that so many of them are very serious; because I had no time to make them flippant. It is so easy to be solemn; it is so hard to be frivolous.