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I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes.
Peter Handke / Novelist
Rooted
Cervantes
I Am Writer Am
Homer
Tolstoy
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
Lord Byron / Baron Byron
Chivalry
Country
Single
Spain
Arm
Away
Cervantes
Demolished
Laugh
Right Arm
Smiled
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'Don Quijote' by Cervantes. I read the original Spanish version when I was in high school. Such a classic!
Manika / Singer
Classic
High School
School High School High
Version
Original
Cervantes
Spanish
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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante / Novelist
Catholic
Censorship
Instance
Literature
Writing
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Writers
Produced
Quixote
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
Ilan Stavans / Essayist
Hispanic
Famous World People
Cervantes
Famous People
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Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
Antonio Munoz Molina / Writer
Important
Irony
Sense Of Humor
Subtle
Cervantes
Representative
Spanish
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron / Baron Byron
Men
Effort
Literature
Redress
Willing
Cervantes
Check
Crimes
Efforts
Fail
Punish
Quixote
Shown
Tale
Wrongs
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
Ilan Stavans / Essayist
Nineteen
Thirty
Cervantes
Lasted
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In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
Lytton Strachey / Writer
England
France
Glory
Literature
Spain
Cervantes
Dante
Italy
Occupies
Shakespeare
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We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.
Ismail Kadaré / Writer
Deny
Greek
Anywhere Else
Cervantes
Dante
Shakespeare
Treasures
We Cannot
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Patrick Melrose' is a frantically accurate exploration of the addict mind tormented by trauma, magnificently brought to life by Benedict Cumberbatch. At its core, it is a story that has a timeless quality with echoes of Cervantes.
Drew Pinsky / Internist
Accurate
Addict
Echoes
Exploration
Timeless
Trauma
Tormented
Cervantes
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For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
Ismail Kadaré / Writer
Dictatorship
Guarantees
Individual Freedom
Personal Freedom
Cervantes
Greatest Writers
Shakespeare
Superior
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Ilan Stavans / Essayist
Ministry
Prize
Spain
Established
Cervantes
Literary
Received
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I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.
Ilan Stavans / Essayist
Connected
Fixed
Metaphor
Spain
Life Beautiful Always
Address
Attract
Nowhere
Cervantes
Globe
Shakespeare
Sites
Thus
Travellers
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