Brazilian Journalist Quotes

Jorge Amado

Lima Barreto

Luís Fernando Veríssimo

He was going to die, and who knows that it could be in that same night? What crime had he committed in his entire life? None. He has carried all his life with the mirage of studying his nation, loving it, intending to contribute to its happiness and prosperity. He has spent all his adolescence in this project, and all his virility too. And now, in his elder ages, how did life return him this favor? Killing him!

Meanwhile, our federal government, there was a plan of the National Council of Public Security to resolve the worst and most urgent problem, which is the number of homicides in Brazil in which we are already in the first place. The first belonged to Russia, we are now, with our 50,000 homicides a year, first. Russia has whatever 42. Russia still were a little bit ahead, but we've got 50. Not saying it's 50, it is 49,999. So we are record breakers. I already told you, our students take the last places on international tests, and we practice more homicides. Then it is not wrong, conclusion: The Brazilian is the dumbest and most murderous people of the universe!

Olavo de Carvalho

Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.

Fernando Sabino

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.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

Luís Fernando Veríssimo