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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 558edd6 | Lo que guardo en la memoria de esos anos son los autores que descubri, los libros queridos que lei con esa voracidad con que uno se envicia de literatura a los dieciocho anos! | MARIO VARGAS LLOSA | ||
| 9084078 | Por mas que uno fuera precavido y planeara sus acciones con la mayor lucidez, la vida, mas compleja que todos los calculos, hacia estallar los esquemas y los reemplazaba por situaciones inciertas y contradictorias. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| ec54e57 | Desde alli vio en un lento remolino, a su madre que saltaba de la cama y vio a su padre detenerla a medio camino y empujarla facilmente hasta el lecho, y luego lo vio dar media vuelta y venir hacia el, vociferando, y se sintio en el aire, y, de pronto, estaba en su cuarto, a oscuras, y el hombre cuyo cuerpo resaltaba en la negrura le volvio a pegar e la cara,y todavia alcanzo a ver que el hombre se interponia entre el y su madre que cruzaba.. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 45ea160 |
El ex-marino lo tranquilizo: < |
Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| c8a29de | Je veux voir le film, grosse bete.>> | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| df47ae6 | Ki ekeinon ton eikhe exanthropisei to Kongko, an anthropos semainei na gnorizeis ta akra sta opoia mporouse na phtasei e aplestia, e philokhrematia, oi prokatalepseis, e skleroteta. Auto etan e ethike exakhreiose, nai: kati pou den eikhan ta zoa, mia anthropine apokleistikoteta. To Kongko tou eikhe apokalupsei oti ola auta etan meros tes zoes. Tou eikhe anoixei ta matia. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 8fd38e1 | Probably there are no longer any societies in which the best people are attracted to civic duties. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 979ff7f | Y sigo pensando que, a pesar de haber vivido ya tantos veranos, aquel fue el mas fabuloso de todos. | fabuloso verano | Mario Vargas Llosa | |
| a9d6b42 | Podia soportar la soledad y las humillaciones que conocia desde nino y solo herian su espiritu: lo horrible era el encierro, esa gran soledad exterior que no elegia, que alguien le arrojaba encima como una camisa de fuerza. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 3a3f723 | When asked if he had a special feeling for books, critic-turned-filmmaker Francois Truffaut answered, "No. I love them and films equally, but how I love them!" As an example, Truffaut gave the example that his feeling of love for "Citizen Kane" (USA, 1941) "is expressed in that scene in 'The 400 Blows' where Antoine lights a candle before the picture of Balzac.' My book lights candles for m any of the great authors of this world: Chinua Ach.. | Alexis Krasilovsky | ||
| 2e8524e | Las ideas de Aron eran coherentes e indiscutibles: no es idoneo defender, de un lado, el liberalismo y la democracia, y, de otro, una politica imperialista y colonial contra un pueblo que reclama su derecho a ser independiente. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| c37c8f3 | Ademas de sabio y modesto, fue un gran liberal. Esto, claro, nos enorgullece a quienes creemos que la doctrina liberal es el simbolo de la cultura democratica --la de la tolerancia, el pluralismo, los derechos humanos, la soberania individual y la legalidad--, el buque insignia de la civilizacion. | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| 81cb744 | La tolerancia no debe incluir el derecho a predicar la intolerancia>>). | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| f31cb0b | mgr Gyr z chnd sm, chyz dygry bry anh `wDshdh bwd? mgr yn chshmndz b zmyn tfth khshkh w asmn srbysh mthl hmyshh nbwd? mgr bhrGm slh khshkhsly yn mnTqh bz dr tlsh yn nbwd khh zkhmhysh r mrhmy bgdhrd, br mrdgnsh mwyh khnd w anchh wyrnshdh bwd dwbrh bh zndgy brgrdnd? Hl khh ry'ysjmhwr bhjy mprtwr nshsth bwd, dr khshwr mSybtzdh chh chyzy `wDshdh bwd? | Mario Vargas Llosa | ||
| d0d5f86 | I don't think love has a reason. I think love comes first and then the reasons follow. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 34927ac | I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be. I like politics and history and am happiest when having a good argument about ideas. I am girly. I am happily girly. I like high heels and trying on lipsticks. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b1ef8cb | There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there. | love end-of-relationship on-monday-of-last-week | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| e5576ed | Why should we be feminists? Why not egalitarians? - "Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general- but to choose to use the vague expression human rights (or egalitarians) is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. | nonfiction | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 0e3cd77 | that absurd idea of "men will be men," which means having a much lower standard for men." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 17235f1 | I know that they don't intend harm, but it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 323331b | Beware the danger of what I call Feminism Lite. It is the idea of conditional female equality. Please reject this entirely. It is a hollow, appeasing, and bankrupt idea. Being a feminist is like being pregnant. You either are or you are not. You either believe in the full equality of men and women or you do not. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 7eb92b8 | Allow" is a troubling word. "Allow" is about power. You will often hear members of the Nigerian chapter of the Society of Feminism Lite say, "Leave the woman alone to do what she wants as long as her husband allows." A husband is not a headmaster. A wife is not a schoolgirl. Permission and being allowed, when used one-sidedly--and it is nearly only used that way--should never be the language of an equal marriage." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| ebc0c22 | There was a stripped-down quality to her life, a kindling starkness, without parents and friends and home, the familiar landmarks that made her who she was. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d33f29d | We do a great disservice to boys in how we raise them. We stifle the humanity of boys. We define masculinity in a very narrow way. Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage. We | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d31ac3b | They went to a fraternity house on Chestnut Street, where everyone stood around drinking vodka-rich punch from plastic cups, until Ifemelu accepted that there would be no dancing; to party here was to stand around and drink. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 1de4a94 | And brave. Encourage her to speak her mind, to say what she really thinks, to speak truthfully. And then praise her when she does. Praise her especially when she takes a stand that is difficult or unpopular because it happens to be her honest position. Tell her that kindness matters. Praise her when she is kind to other people. But teach her that her kindness must never be taken for granted. Tell her that she, too, deserves the kindness of .. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| cf736fa | Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real." | romance pining waiting | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| ec34b30 | One of the things I've learned is that everybody in this country has the mentality of scarcity. We imagine that even the things that are not scarce are scarce. And it breeds a kind of desperation in everybody. Even the wealthy. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9b33945 | La triste verdad es que nuestro mundo esta repleto de hombres y mujeres a quienes no les gustan las mujeres poderosas. Nos han condicionado tanto con que el poder es masculino que una mujer poderosa nos parece una aberracion. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 95010a7 | We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b36fafc | A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages. | literature | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| 63581c7 | Please don't speak Igbo to him,' Aunty Uju said. 'Two languages will confuse him.' 'What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.' 'This is America. It's different. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 8fbbbcf | Of course they nurse resentment, as they well should, but it has somehow managed to leave their spirits whole. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| b5a7075 | She is one of those black people who want to be the only black person in the room, so any other black person is an immediate threat to her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 64b24ef | She did not understand grunge, the idea of looking shabby because you could afford not to be shabby; it mocked true shabbiness. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d7593a5 | He was left-leaning and well-meaning, crippled by his acknowledgement of his own many privileges. He never allowed himself to have an opinion. 'Yes, I see what you mean,' he said often. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| f955cca | But Nature is unfair to women. An act is done by two people, but if there are any consequences, one person carries it alone. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| e650ff1 | 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 lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for choice and certainty. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 863c611 | Tente nao usar demais palavras como "misoginia" e "patriarcado" com Chizalum. Nos, feministas, as vezes usamos muitos jargoes, e o jargao as vezes pode ser abstrato demais. Nao se limite a rotular alguma coisa de misogina - explique a ela por que aquilo e misogino e como poderia deixar de ser." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| d85ee88 | Ensine Chizalum a questionar os homens que so conseguem sentir empatia pelas mulheres dentro de uma rede de relacoes, e nao como individuos humanos iguais. Homens que, discutindo o estupro, sempre dirao algo como: "se fosse minha filha ou esposa ou irma". Mas esses homens nao precisam imaginar um homem vitima de um crime "como irmao ou filho" para sentir empatia." | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 9b92277 | Ifemelu was looking forward to being away from home, to the independence of owning her own time. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 68a9391 | Something about the way Chinedu said his name, Abidemi, made her think of gently pressing on a sore muscle, the kind of self-inflicted ache that is satisfying. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 0765e12 | But she had not had a bold epiphany and there was no cause; it was simply that layer after layer of discontent had settled in her, and formed a mass that now propelled her. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | ||
| 4143d0c | Besides, humility had always seemed to him a specious thing, invented for the comfort of others; you were praised for humility by people because you did not make them feel any more lacking than they already did. | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |