“You can't make facts fit the rules, it is the other way round. The rules have to be adopted to fit the facts.”
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30 quotes
“We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.”
“When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.”
“Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.”
“He is always furious, on account of what he finds out or what he doesn't find out.”
“Lima frightened him, it was too big, you could lose yourself in it and never find your way home; the people on the street were total strangers.”
“It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.”
“Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth. Interview , El País , 27/02/2018”
“Mario Vargas Llosa compara al peronismo con los nazis y lo culpa de destruir Argentina”
“Ahora tenemos un peronismo que es todo: es la extrema derecha, es el centro, es el centro izquierda, es la extrema izquierda, es la democracia y es el terrorismo, es la demagogia y es la insensatez... Todo es el peronismo... Now we have Peronism that is everything: it's the far right and its the center, it's left centrist and is also extreme leftist, it is democracy and is also terrorism, its demagogy is also insanity...Peronism is everything.”
“The Universal Library”
“Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv”
“The masked dyer Hakim of Merv”
“The Approach to Al”
“The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro”
“Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. Universal History of Infamy [Historia universal de la infamia] (1935) Preface”
“That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox. Evaristo Carriego (1930) Ch. 2”
“A Poem by Oscar Wilde”
“The Argentine Writer and Tradition”
“If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author. "To the Reader" ["A quien leyere"], preface to Fervor of Buenos Aires [ Fervor de Buenos Aires ]”
“...We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it’s silent, tranquil, and gentle; it’s a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self”
“...you shouldn't stay trapped in the past or be frightened of the future. You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? Every day counts, I can tell you!”
“There are a lot of good people, Irina, but they keep quiet about it. It’s the bad ones who make a lot of noise, and that’s why they get noticed...”
“When Irina Bazili began working at Lark House in 2010, she was twenty”
“Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. Of Love and Shadows”
“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G”
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. Paula”
“Where does taste end and smell begin? "Language of Flowers" anthologized in The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World edited by Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson”
“He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. Zorro”
“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir”