Santiago Restrepo > Santiago's Quotes

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.” –French proverb”
― Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.” The Time Machine — H.G. Wells”
― Anonymous

“I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. ”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Adult stories never made sense, and they were so slow to start. They made me feel like there were secrets, Masonic, mythic secrets, to adulthood. Why didn't adults want to read about Narnia, about secret islands and smugglers and dangerous fairies?”
― Neil Gaiman

“You know, I need hardly remind you, it is not numbers or strength that gives victory in war; but, heaven helping them, to one or other of two combatants it is given to dash with stouter hearts to meet the foe, and such onset, in nine cases out of ten, those others refuse to meet.”
― Xenophon, The Persian Expedition

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

“it is no disgrace but honourable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids;”
― Xenophon, The Persian Expedition

“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”
― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

“I could leave here and return to my hometown, but I would not return as the person I was when I left,’ he explained. ‘I would not recognize anyone. And no one would recognize me.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“Say ‘Nevermore,’” said Shadow. “Fuck you,” said the raven.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“She patted him on the arm. “You’re fucked up, mister. But you’re cool.” “I believe that’s what they call the human condition,” said Shadow.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary

“You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business,” said Mr. Ibis, in an undertone.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods: Tenth Anniversary

“It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But their agony has achieved just this—that now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“A slave, Marcus Cato said, should be working when he is not sleeping. It does not matter whether his work is needed or not, he must work, because work in itself is good—for slaves, at least.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs—and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.”
― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
― Carlo M. Cipolla

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein