“The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.”
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“Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She recognized him at once from the voice. He said, I just wanted to hear your voice. She said, it's me, hello. He was nervous, afraid, as before. His voice suddenly trembled. And with the trembling, suddenly, she heard again the voice of China. He knew she'd begun writing books, he'd heard about it through her mother whom he'd met again in Saigon. And about her younger brother, and he'd been grieved for her. Then he didn't know what to say. And then he told her. Told her that it was as before, that he still loved her, he could never stop loving her, that he'd love her until death.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.”
― The Short Stories
― The Short Stories
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole...”
― The Autumn of the Patriarch
― The Autumn of the Patriarch
“Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead”
― Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age
― Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Media Consumers in a Digital Age
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