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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“No concibo mi vida más que como un encadenamiento de muertes sucesivas. Arrastro tras de mí los cadáveres de todas mis ilusiones, de todas mis vocaciones perdidas.”
― Julio Ramón Ribeyro

“El tiempo que pierdes con tus miedos, no lo recuperas nunca”
― David Safier, Jesus liebt mich

“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
― Graham Greene

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said.

Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing."

"Self-inflicted. You pathetic American."

"Different kind of prison" Chip said.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible the death the more ridiculous they seem. It’s no use trying to invest the end with a little dignity—you have to be a liar and a hypocrite to discover anything tragic in their going.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Cuántas palabras, sólo para decir que no quiero parecer patético.”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua

“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves

“Dentro de nós há uma coisa que não tem nome, essa coisa é o que somos".”
― José Saramago

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Citar es citarse.”
― Julio Cortázar, La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos

“Que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; a mí me enorgullecen las que he leído.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Todos estos libros, lo noto, me están cambiando por dentro. Yo no podía imaginarme que esto de leer era como vivir.”
― Rosa Montero, Historia del rey transparente

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Sería preferible cerrar el libro, cerrar los libros, y enfrentar, sin más, no la vida, que es muy grande, sino la frágil armadura del presente.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Cuando vino un miliciano a registrar la casa, yo le enseñé todos mis santos, tranquilamente. «¿Pero usted cree en esas paparruchas de Dios?», me dijo. «Claro que sí; ¿usted no?», le contesté. «No, ni permito que lo crea nadie.» «Entonces yo soy más republicana que usted, porque a mí me tiene sin cuidado lo que los demás piensen; creo en la libertad de ideas.» Entonces se rascó la cabeza y me dio la razón".”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“«Hay momentos para recitar poesías y hay momentos para boxear».”
― Roberto Bolaño

“El silencio que brota de los libros y nos envuelve es un silencio lleno de sonidos.”
― Rodrigo Fresán, Kensington Gardens

“No sé dónde nos han enseñado que socorrer al desvalido equivale a apartarlo de las garras de la muerte a cualquier precio.”
― Mario Bellatin, Beauty Salon

“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
― Annie Ernaux, Happening

“Aquí estoy, una vez más lejos de casa, esperando a alguien que no conozco en una esquina que no volveré a ver jamás. Y esta es exactamente la vida que quiero tener.”
― Leila Guerriero