No sé quién dijo que, gane quien gane las guerras, las pierden siempre los poetas;


“talent is something you use, not something that uses you.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer

“Uno de mis primeros entrevistados fue Roberto Bolaño. Bolaño, que era escritor y chileno, vivía desde hacía mucho tiempo en Blanes, un pueblo costero situado en la frontera entre Barcelona y Gerona, tenía cuarenta y siete años, un buen número de libros a sus espaldas y ese aire inconfundible de buhonero hippie que aqueja a tantos latinoamericanos de su generación exiliados en Europa.”
― Soldados de Salamina
― Soldados de Salamina

“Americans liked seeing people eye to eye, the General had once told me, especially as they screwed them from behind.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer

“Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?" Honey asks.
No one says a word.
"Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
No one says a word.
"Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.”
― The Brooklyn Follies

“My fear was not the fear of God but, as in the case of the whole Turkish secular bourgeoisie, fear of the anger of those who believe in God too zealously(...) I experienced the guilt complex as something personal, originated less from the fear of distancing myself from God than from distancing myself from the sense of community shared by the entire city .”
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
― Istanbul: Memories and the City
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