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“La realidad es para la gente que no puede dominar las drogas.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her. You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day; and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon

“So it was that she knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books, you were shamed and a fool to say that in Scotland.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“La nora encengué un foc de llenya i un cop fet força caliu hi va posar algunes lloses de pissarra -de llicorella, deien ells- després d'untar-les d'oli copisament. Un cop roents hi estengué els conills espellats i espaterrats, ben espolsats de sal. Jo em mirava tot allò com si estigués veient els preparatius d'un dinar de l'època paleolítica, de l'autèntica Edat de Pedra! Amb l'allioli que mentre els conills es rostien havia fet el vell -en un gran morter també de pedra-, no recordo haver menjat cosa més rica en tots els dies de la meva vida.”
― Joan Sales

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

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

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Caddy olía como los árboles cuando llueve y como cuando ella dice que estamos dormidos.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“La frase 'todo tiempo pasado fue mejor' no indica que antes sucedieran menos cosas malas, sino que -felizmente- la gente las echa en el olvido. ”
― Ernesto Sábato, El túnel

“It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.”
― James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
― William Faulkner

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“La enciclopedia comprada por el padre de Cipriano Algor es tan magnífica e inútil como un verso que no conseguimos recordar.”
― José Saramago, La caverna

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”
― William Shakespeare, The Sonnets

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

“En política, lo que menos cuenta es el programa. Las campañas no son más que guerras de carismas”
― Antonio J. Rodríguez, Candidato

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections