J.C. “Smithers”

One of my fave books. Saramago's writing style and thought provoking themes epitomize everything I think exists with a good writer. Some of the best quotes ever are from Saramago. Some may feel differently but love this man's work and his style. ...but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt. The good and the evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much-talked-of immortality. Possibly, but this man is dead and must be buried -Jose Saramago, Blindness