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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 146a2ed | En realidad estoy menos orgulloso de lo que soy que de lo que he conseguido no ser. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 8f45dc0 | Dejennos volver a Espana y que cada chucho se lama su propio organo, mesie, dicho en fino, o sea. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 65002d9 | Esos hijoputas ya son dificiles como aliados, asi que cuando sepan que estamos fusilando a los paisanos para que los pinte al oleo ese tipo, Goya, figurese la que nos pueden organizar. | goya la-sombra-del-águila | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| 50aad10 | Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 52d6a2e | Asi, tras haber tenido buen numero de amantes, una mujer debe considerarse afortunada si sabe convertir a alguno de ellos, el mas inteligente, en un fiel y leal amigo. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 6a57a75 | There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or deed destroys itself. It becomes a flock of sheep that will get their throats cut by the first person to come along. The same thing happens to men. | violence | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| d1958ad | Cambia mucho las cosas, en tal sentido, recorrer la Mancha con el Quijote en las manos, visitar Palermo habiendo leido El Gatopardo, pasear por Buenos Aires con Borges o Bioy Casares en el recuerdo, o caminar por Hisarlik sabiendo que alli hubo una ciudad llamada Troya, y que los zapatos del viajero llevan el mismo polvo por el que Aquiles arrastro el cadaver de Hector atado a su carro. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| ad11da6 | We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs a god, and so they invent one. The second erects temples to that god and tries to imitate him. And the third uses the marble from those temples to build brothels in which to worship their own greed, lust, and dishonesty. And that is why gods and heroes are always, inevitably, succeeded by mediocrities, cowards, and.. | god | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | |
| c1e0020 | Audience turn to archetype packed stories to enjoy, whether consciously or unconsciously, the device of repeated plots with small variations. Dispositio rather than elocution. That's why the serial, even the most trite television serial, can become a cult both for a naive audience and for a more sophisticated one. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 78cbb5c | Insistir, a estas alturas, en que aprecio en general mas a los perros que a los hombres es una obviedad que no remachare demasiado. He dicho alguna vez que si la raza humana desapareciera de la faz de la tierra, esta ganaria mucho en el cambio; mientras que sin perros seria un lugar mas oscuro e insoportable. Cuestion de lealtad, supongo. Hay quien valora unas cosas y quien valora otras. Por mi parte, creo que la lealtad incondicional, a pr.. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 67e7cde | de vez en cuando el genero humano necesite irse un rato al carajo. Irse bien ido, y que alguien de un empujoncito para facilitar el viaje. Tal | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 3ef4743 | A mi no me mueve el amor por la humanidad, sino el desprecio hacia ella. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| d2dd765 | What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and forces one of the combatants, sooner or later, to make a mistake. It is therefore merely a matter of keeping Fate at bay long enough for the other man to make a mistake first. Anything else is pure illusion. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 61ef226 | Sometimes," he said at last, as if it were an enormous effort to formulate his thoughts, "I wonder if chess is something man invented or if he merely discovered it. It's as if it were something that has always been there, since the beginning of the universe. Like whole numbers." | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 6be77b4 | In affairs of the heart, Princess," Cesar used to say, "one should offer neither advice nor solutions ... just a clean hanky when it seems appropriate." | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 4d4d251 | Solo un Estado organizado y fuerte, protector de sus artistas, pensadores y cientificos, es capaz de proveer el progreso material y moral de una nacion... Y ese no es nuestro caso. | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | ||
| 4f0257f | His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 817b6b6 | If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist. | human-life immeasurability organic | Wallace Stegner | |
| a3f13ca | I tell him I am proud of his genius for construction, but he says he has no genius for anything, he just never knows when he is beaten. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 80b5de9 | I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or.. | emptiness evil habit habits old-age work | Wallace Stegner | |
| 646c13d | If you avoid the killer diseases and keep the degenerative ones under control with sensible diet and exercise and whatever chemotherapy you need to stay in balance, you can live nearly forever. | Stegner Wallace | ||
| 936cefd | Somewhere, sometime, somebody taught her to question everything - though it might have been a good thing if he'd also taught her to question the act of questioning. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 7475a59 | Nevertheless, no fictions. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 22a7935 | In that latitude the midsummer days were long, midsummer nights only a short darkness between the long twilight that postponed the stars and the green dawn clarity that sponged them up. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b317808 | Maybe we were the Diggers of literature. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 1fcb892 | She will burn bright until she goes out; she will go on standing on tiptoe till she falls. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 667c927 | You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published? | Wallace Stegner | ||
| c5cc99f | When she tipped her head and looked upward at the glowing dark blue dome pricked with its millions of lights, bigger and brighter than stars had ever been, she felt the mountains breathe in her face their ancient, frightening cold. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 29e45d8 | I didn't know myself well, and still don't. But I did know, and know now, the few people I loved and trusted. My feeling for them is one part of me I have never quarreled with, even though my relations with them have more than once been abrasive. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 14eb77b | The ferocious virtues that had been necessary for survival on the American frontier were theirs: they were men who lived freely, wastefully, independently, and they lived by killing--animals as a rule, men if necessary. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| b7e7ce6 | She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 7b6f0a3 | What little strength he had left flowed out of him and was soaked up; his bones and veins and skin held nothing but tiredness and pain. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| f6f9fa3 | Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 5ec9abe | Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| eacb98d | Ruth tells me at least once a day that old people, or people getting old, tend to disengage, back away, turn inward, listen only to themselves, and get self-righteous and censorious. And they (I mustn't.) | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d95af1f | If you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 2ba62eb | We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 5faf078 | I was writing up a New Mexico snow-storm, I had it coming down thick and heavy, muffling the roads and mounding on adobe walls and windowsills and whitening the pinon and junipers when the tapping came on the door. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 7a88aac | It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.' 'Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race. | crowds humanity idealism individuality privacy | Wallace Stegner | |
| 3070ba2 | What should one do? If Ruth had any better luck with him I would have thought that he simply had to attach himself to antifatherly gods until he proved himself a man in his own terms...She followed him to the bottom of his burrow, trying to understand, she forgave him incessantly, she was the pacifying force when he and I clashed. And he went out of his way to treat her with even greater impatience and contempt than he treated me. His wretc.. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 2a2ad79 | How to write a story, though ignorant or baffled. You take something that is important to you, something you have brooded about. You try to see it as clearly as you can, and to fix it in a transferable equivalent. All you want in the finished print is the clean statement of the lens, which is yourself, on the subject that has been absorbing your attention. Sure, it's autobiography. Sure, it's fiction. Either way, if you have done it right, .. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| d6d629d | He has a way of walking through conventions of that kind as if they did not exist, and being so much himself that pretty soon people begin adapting themselves to him. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 76aba57 | Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting. | Wallace Stegner | ||
| 030488c | A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people. | Wallace Stegner |