Quotes - Juan Ocampo (juanseocar) Showing 181-210 of 500

#181

“When all else fails, philosophize.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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#182

“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
― J.M. Coetzee

tags: happiness

236 likes

#183

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

tags: humor, politics, voting

566 likes

#184

“I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity”
― Kosinski, Jerzy

tags: suicide-note

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#185

“It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.”
― Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird

tags: drug

63 likes

#186

“You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.”
― Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows

tags: extraordinary, life, music

126 likes

#187

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

5644 likes

#188

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

2917 likes

#189

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

tags: travel

2974 likes

#190

“Estaba tan pálida y tan triste que yo le pregunté si se iba a morir otra vez.”
― Emma Reyes

tags: drama, epistolary-novele

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#191

“Mi cabeza es como un cuarto lleno de trastos viejos donde no se sabe más lo que hay ni en qué estado.”
― Emma Reyes, Memoria por correspondencia

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#192

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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#193

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

964 likes

#194

“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
― Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations

tags: creative-process, music, poetry, writing

273 likes

#195

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: bukowski

1418 likes

#196

“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

95 likes

#197

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

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#198

“Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.”
― Hugh Kenner, Mazes: Essays

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#199

“La juventud muere cuando muere su voluntad de seducción.”
― Juan Marsé, Últimas tardes con Teresa

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#200

“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
― Don DeLillo, The Names

tags: ghoul, liberation, novel

412 likes

#201

“the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light”
― Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola

tags: autumn, foliage, forest, forests, halloween, october, woods

68 likes

#202

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

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#203

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

tags: life, luxury

1284 likes

#204

“Quedaban en el suelo los cuerpos, las ropas deshechas, algunos quemados y todos con el guante derecho crispado alrededor del papelito con el contrato de rendición, como si fuera entrada intransferible para el gran teatro de los muertos.”
― Rodolfo Fogwill

tags: los-pichiciegos

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#205

“Por el modo de vestirse, cada uno hace de su cuerpo una ficción.”
― Juan José Saer, Glosa

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#206

“El momento presente no tiene más fundamento que su parentesco con el pasado.”
― Juan José Saer, El entenado

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#207

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion

tags: imitation, originality, writers, writing

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#208