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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da4469c | Pero el poder --como el amor-- es de doble filo: se ejerce y se padece. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8ac1ce4 | Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c32cb93 | There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or someone who wanted to go off and sleep forever because he could not stand the shit taste of war in his mouth and who nonetheless, stood at attention to inform him: "Everything normal, Colonel." And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f08aa1f | From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| b04f7ee | Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses caused him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time, and as always he attributed this to a cause beyond his control. "The fact is there are fewer and fewer good books," he would say." | simon-bolivar | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 09d3288 | It was simply a way of giving herself some relief, because actually they were joined till death by a bond that was more solid than love: a common prick of conscience. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 837669e | He finished shaving by touch, still walking around the room, for he tried to see himself in the mirror as little as possible so he would not have to look into his own eyes. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 47a854d | Because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 29bafcd | I returned home tormented by the little demon who whispers into our ear the devastating replies we didn't give at the right time, | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| cd800fa | fy llHZ@ lty yjls fyh y ktb lyktb , fnh yqrr n kn sySbH ktb jyd 'm ktb rdyy' | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| df6c88e | No importa lo que los medicos dicen, la rabia en los seres humanos con frecuencia es una delas trampas del enemigo. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e039538 | 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... | corruption human-nature humor | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| e206faf | It is not that the girl is unfit for everything; it is that she is not of this world. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 53948d0 | dhkrth 'nh l ymkn llD`f dkhwl mmlk@ lHb, l'nh mmlk@ qsy@ w Srm@, w 'n lns l ystslmn l llrjl lmSmmyn, l'nhm yb`thwn fyhn lTm'nyn@ lty yt`Tshn lyh lmwjh@ lHy@ | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 7879659 | They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights. | love | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| d36708b | lshrf hw lHb" , hkdh knt 'sm` 'my tqwl" | الشرف | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| deb831b | it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to things that are of real interest to us. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 3e48ec1 | Science has eliminated distance. | hispanic-literature latin-america nobel-prize-awardee science | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 348c02d | Eres un burro. Lo que Dios te dio en ojos te lo quito en sesos. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ceaf90b | It is life, more than death, that has no limits. Love becomes greater and nobler and mightier in calamity. We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a women decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root. There is no god worth worrying about. Let time pass and we will see what it brings. Humanity, like the armies in .. | death gabriel garcia limits love marquez | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 197543b | kuntu 'qwl lh : l tsrq 'bdan shyy'an yHtj lyh nsn liy'kul | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 09054b4 | Elle lui semblait si belle, si seduisante, si differente des gens du commun qu'il ne comprenait pas pourquoi personne n'etait comme lui bouleverse par le chant de castagnette de ses talons sur les paves de la rue, ni pourquoi les coeurs ne battaient pas la chamade aux soupirs de ses volants, ni pourquoi personne ne devenait fou d'amour sous la caresse de ses cheveux, l'envol de ses mains, l'or de son sourire. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 29a8ef9 | Then she told him to look in the bedroom and Aureliano Segundo saw the mule. Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she. Petra Cotes had fed it with her wrath, and when there was no more hay or corn or roots, she had given it shelter in her own bedroom and fed it on the percale sheets, the Persian rugs, the plush bedspreads, the velvet drapes, and the canopy embroidered with go.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| bc45bc0 | The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet. "May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart." | literary-quotes | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 9be2aa6 | And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?' he asked. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ac9d64c | Stories are not mere flights of fantasy or instruments of political power and control. They link us to our past, provide us with critical insight into the present and enable us to envision our lives not just as they are but as they should be or might become. Imaginative knowledge is not something you have today and discard tomorrow. It is a way of perceiving the world and relating to it. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| b53319d | st lthwr@ lslmy@ llslm 'kthr mn 'y Gryb kn ymkn n ysy, wdhlk bstkhdm lslm wsyl@ llystbdd wljw | Azar Nafisi | ||
| e6ac245 | How can we protect ourselves from a culture of manipulation, where tastes and flavors are re-created chemically in laboratories and given to us as natural food, where religion is packaged, televised and tweeted and commercials influence us to such an extent that they dictate not only what we eat, wear, read and want but what and how we dream. We need the pristine beauty of truth as revealed to us in fiction, poetry, music and the arts: we n.. | memoirs-of-a-geisha the-republic-of-imagination | Azar Nafisi | |
| aee64bc | We can't all leave this country, Bijan had told me-this is our home. The world is a large place, my magician had said when I went to him with my woes. You can write and teach wherever you are. You will be read more and heard better, in fact, once you are over there. To go or not to go? In the long run, it's all very personal, my magician reasoned. I always admired your former colleague's honesty, he said. Which former colleague? Dr. A, the .. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| a0633e4 | The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant. | imagination thought | Azar Nafisi | |
| 3ba75ac | As women, do we have the same rights as men to enjoy sex? How many of us would say yes, we do have a right, we have a equal right to enjoy sex, and if our husbands don't satisfy us, then we have a right to seek satisfaction elsewhere. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 1387e9c | The feelings I thought I had left behind returned when, almost nineteen years later, the Islamic regime would once again turn against its students. This time it would open fire on those it had admitted to the universities, those who were its own children, the children of the revolution. Once more my students would go to the hospitals in search of the murdered bodies that where stolen by the guards and vigilantes and try to prevent them from.. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 5b31ea5 | Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists. | fear secret | Azar Nafisi | |
| a273c74 | Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark," Baldwin said in an interview in 1961. "Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an il.. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 8a30887 | The truth was that upsilamba was one of Nabokovs fascinating creations, possibly a word he invented. I said I associate Upsilamba with the impossible joy of a suspended leap. Yassi, who seemed excited for no particular reason, cried out that she always thought it could be a name of a dance- you know, "C'mon, baby, do the Upsilamba with me". Manna suggested that the word upsilamba evoked the image of small silver fish leaping in and out of a.. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| b50acd6 | This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences | Azar Nafisi | ||
| f33e19e | Fiction is an antidote, a reminder of the power of individual choice. Every novel has at its core a choice by at least one of its protagonists, reminding the reader that she can choose to be her own person, to go against what her parents or society or the state tell her to do and follow the faint but essential beat of her own heart. | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 7eb6c7d | you cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be stubborn for something as well | Azar Nafisi | ||
| 25ad3e0 | This is the lesson of all great television commercials: They provide a slogan, a symbol or a focus that creates for viewers a comprehensive and compelling image of themselves. In the shift from party politics to television politics, the same goal is sought. We are not permitted to know who is best at being President or Governor or Senator, but whose image is best in touching and soothing the deep reaches of our discontent. We look at the te.. | politics psychology television | Neil Postman | |
| 3cc4fce | In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself. | technology utilitarianism | Neil Postman | |
| 056311d | If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture. | Neil Postman | ||
| ce968f2 | We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant. | recreation | Neil Postman | |
| ffb3f5d | But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it is very nearly impermissible to say, "Let me think about that" or "I don't know" or "What do you mean when you say...?" or "From what sources does your information come?" This type of discourse not only slows down the tempo of the show but creates the impression of uncertainty or lack of finish. It tends to .. | intelligence public-discourse television thinking | Neil Postman | |
| dc5a489 | The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create? A conglomerate of self-indulgent consumers? Angry, soulless, directionless masses? Indifferent, confused citizens? Or a public imbued with confidence, a sense of purpose, a respect for learning, and tolerance? The answer to this question has nothing whatever to do with computers, with testing, with teacher accountabili.. | school | Neil Postman |