Brief Encounters with Che Guevara Quotes

“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a meal or had a gun stuck to their heads.”
― Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera

“She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy.”
― Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera

“They were all lawyers, all schooled in the authority of words, though as their words turned to dust a pall of impotence and futility settled over the mission.”
― Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevera

“...the Revolution had reached that classic mature stage where it existed only for its own sake.”
― Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories

“He decides he wants both more and less. He’d like to hang out with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know her by doing small pleasant things like going out for icecream, or how about this, a three-week trial run in some tropical paradise where they can hang together in that nice way and possibly fall in love, and meanwhile fuck each other’s brains out in their spare time. He wants both, he wants the entire body-soul connect because anything less is just demeaning. Has the war done this to him, he wonders, inspired by these deeper sensitivities and yearnings of his? Or is it just because he’s going on his twentieth year of life?”
― Ben Fountain, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories