Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
Memories are worse than bullets.
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
Theory is the practice of the impotent.
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Envy is the religion of the mediocre
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.
And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
There are worse prisons than words.
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.
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