Ernesto Sabato Professions : Writer Born : June 24, 1911 Died : April 30, 2011 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Ernesto Sabato Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars? Ernesto Sabato novelists stars life The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. Ernesto Sabato expression mean people Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other. Ernesto Sabato office dream book The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy. Ernesto Sabato morning funny country Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors