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Elizabeth Kostova
“What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.”
Elizabeth Kostova

Christopher Hitchens
“What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.”
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

Władysław Szpilman
“And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.”
Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45

Daniel Keyes
“Solo disfruto ahora con la televisión. Me paso la mayor parte del día viendo los concursos, las películas antiguas, los culebrones e, incluso, los programas infantiles y los dibujos animados. Y no soy capaz de apagarla. Tarde, por la noche, hay películas antiguas, de miedo, la función de noche y la función de madrugada y luego la breve homilía antes de que se acabe la emisión con la imagen de la bandera de los Estados Unidos ondeando al fondo y finalmente la pantalla de prueba de imagen me contempla a través de su pequeña ventana cuadrada con su ojo siempre abierto...

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Y cuando se ha acabado todo, me doy asco porque apenas me queda tiempo para leer, escribir y pensar, y porque sé que no debería drogarme con esa porquería que está dirigida al niño que hay en mí. Sobre todo porque el niño que hay en mí está reclamando mi mente”
Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

David Sedaris
“I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
David Sedaris, Naked

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