MEMORIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS Quotes

“The main defect of this book is you, reader you were in a hurry to grow old and this book moves slowly. You love direct and continuous narration, and this book and my style are like drunkards, they stagger left and right, they walk and stop, mumble, yell, cackle, shake their fists at the sky, stumble and fall...”
― Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, MEMORIAS PÓSTUMAS DE BRAS CUBAS