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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2cc486e | La creatividad es justamente esto: un intento alquimico de transmutar el sufrimiento en belleza. El arte en general, y la literatura en particular, son armas poderosas contra el Mal y el Dolor. | Rosa Montero | ||
| aebbb55 | Light literature, along with light cinema and light art, give the reader and the viewer the comfortable impression that they are cultured, revolutionary, modern and in the vanguard without having to make the slightest intellectual effort. Culture that purports to be avant-garde and iconoclastic instead offers conformity in its worst forms: smugness and self-satisfaction. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| d7edb7c | Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories. | reading | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 4379c57 | Ni siquiera tenia animos para concentrarse en la lectura. | lectura ánimos | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 34a969a | Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings. | literature reading | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 1e2c154 | Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 0dfccf2 | And yet, my dear Estela, in the end one accepts the will of God, resigns oneself, and discovers that, even with all its calvaries, life is full of beautiful things. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| cbdfcb9 | bwr nmy khrdm khh w bh dwst qdymy khwdsh nrw bznd. khb dygr, syst y`ny hmyn, adm rwy jnzh dygrn jlw my rwd. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| d3ca81b | My impression is that life--a big word, I know--inflicts themes on a writer through certain experiences that impress themselves on his consciousness or subconscious and later compel him to shake himself free by turning them into stories. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 7b080bd | Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil. | god | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 694f2d6 |
En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar>>, decia Herbert. < |
god reasoning | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| 842d62e | Monsieur, c'est trop d'honneur que vous me voulez faire; Mais l'amitie demande un peu plus de mystere, Et c'est assurement en profaner le nom Que de vouloir le mettre a toute occasion. Avec lumiere et choix cette union veut naitre; Avant que nous lier, il faut nous mieux connaitre, Et nous pourrions avoir telles complexions, Que tous deux du marche nous nous repentirions. | Molière | ||
| 1477a99 | A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them. | Molière | ||
| 02cb667 | Femeile frumoase au datoria de a ne scoate din minti. | Molière | ||
| 71a0664 | Trahi de toutes parts, accable d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre ou triomphent les vices ; Et chercher sur la terre un endroit ecarte Ou d'etre homme d'honneur, on ait la liberte. | Molière | ||
| 502efc7 | She began to like him because he liked her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 6c1aa91 | Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast. | Barbara Delinsky | ||
| 813e3a6 | She heard his words like a melody and she felt herself breathing unevenly, gulping at the air. She would not cry, it was ridiculous to cry after so long, but her eyes were filling with tears and there was a boulder in her chest and a stinging in her throat. The tears felt itchy. She made no sound. He took her hand in his, both clasped on the table, and between them silence grew, an ancient silence that they both knew. She was inside this si.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 32042a2 | The more civilians you bomb, the more resistance you grow. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a0afd56 | Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him, who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real live.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9ef3c5c | We watch films in class," she told Obinze. "They talk about films here as if films are as important as books. So we watch films and then we write a response paper and almost everybody gets an A. Can you imagine? These Americans are not serious" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| dabecc5 | He spent too much time mourning what could have been and questioning what should be. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8f93dde | It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 57f2984 | There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once. | prejudice | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 3420f28 | Mama had greeted him the traditional way that women were supposed to, bending low and offering him her back so that he would pat it with his fan made of the soft, straw-colored tail of an animal. Back home that night, Papa told Mama that it was sinful. You did not bow to another human being. It was an ungodly tradition, bowing to an Igwe. So, a few days later, when we went to see the bishop at Awka, I did not kneel to kiss his ring. I wante.. | religion | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 9cf2aca | He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened. | mannerisms | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| b3a5522 | You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, before, finally, white men--which meant you never rooted for white men. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9f8364c | Yes, good. There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly," Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a218d57 | Ifemelu opened her novel, Jean Toomer's Cane, and skimmed a few pages. She had been meaning to read it for a while now, and imagined she would like it since Blaine did not. A precious performance, Blaine had called it, in that gently forbearing tone he used when they talked about novels, as though he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked were superior, novels writt.. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1e30b7a | Teach her to stand up for what is hers. If another child takes her toy without her permission, ask her to take it back, because her consent is important. Tell her that if anything ever makes her uncomfortable, to speak up, to say it, to shout. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f58a2b7 | If she sees you reading, she will understand that reading is valuable. | feminist | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e3a10e5 | Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 97248c2 | I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. In addition to anger, I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4ae1332 | Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3) | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8d308c8 | His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ec2d50f | What if the parents, from the beginning, taught both children to cook Indomie? Cooking, by the way, is a useful and practical life skill for a boy to have--I've never thought it made much sense to leave such a crucial thing--the ability to nourish oneself --in the hands of others. | feminism gender-roles | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 08ce14f | The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7f8918b | Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never a reason for anything. Ever. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8914975 | that people walk different paths in the world, and that as long as those paths do no harm to others, they are valid paths that she must respect. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 946dfb2 | White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn't threatening | white-privilege | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 2b10e89 | He used to make me feel that nothing I said was witty enough or sarcastic enough or smart enough. He was always struggling to be different, even when it didn't matter. It was as if he was performing his life instead of living his life. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b10b8b0 | Some people will say a woman is subordinate to men because its our culture. But culture is constantly changing...culture does not make people, people makes culture. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| a239d67 | that absurd idea of "men will be men," which means having a much lower standard for men. I" | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7f886bc | Many girls spend too much time trying to be "nice" to people who do them harm. Many girls think of the "feelings" of those who are hurting them. This is the catastrophic consequence of likeability. We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |