179 quotes found
“A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.”
“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”
“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”
“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”
“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.”
“1My father says a hunch is your brains way of taking a short cut to the truth, replied Max.Hes a wise man, your father. What else does he say?That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quick...”
“Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.”
“You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.”
“History is biology's dumping ground”
“He believed that life gives us all a few moments of happiness. For some they last hours or days, for a few lucky ones they last for years. The memories from those moments stays with us forever and ...”
“I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.”
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these t...”
“Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas”
“He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters, the only r...”
“- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.”
“Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creature comforts. Penelope, the beautiful Penelope, w...”
“Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.”
