Felipe González

“In Guadalajara, those who have never waited for a bus under the sun, who have never breathed the heavy air of a public hospital nor reached out to the government for help, raise their hands to decide for you.”

“Then will come the excuse of those who supported this New World, saying they did not know, that it was exaggerated, that they were only defending order.”

“When people stop shuddering at the pain of others, crime no longer needs executioners: consent is enough.”

“Has he gained weight?" He smiles a pathetic smile, seeing his reflection, sweaty and "almost dead," projected there on the glass of a dismantled display case full of mannequins.”

“While it's true that, recently, Ramiro Gutiérrez had shown a tendency toward tearful and painful literature, he had never felt the same way, for example, as the pathetic Werther or the gallant Don Quixote.”

“Literature that hurts is often the one that best tells a complex truth.”

“Literature is an act of communion.”

“In the end, the two failed Chilean constituent processes were a marketing exercise to legitimize the constitution of the Dictatorship.”

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”

“We cannot be naive: the literature book will not solve poverty by itself”

“…sometimes I feel like I betray the writer when I try to teach literature.”

“Literature is the emotional biography of a human being who has dared to write it.”

“…over time he would realize that the higher he was, the less danger he was in and the more he controlled the ever-ready mass.”

“Mexico is a beautiful country in its tremendous contradictions.”

“I think of the northern country, the United States, where they are specialists, very good at what they do, but sometimes, many times, they have no memory of the things that have happened, because they are so interested in raising money that the past is blurred and give meaning to ignorance on the basis of consumption.”

“How to be sure that nothing will happen, when you don't always need a reason to become one of those cursed and deceptive beings, those entities thrown from the cradle of God.”

“God? Christ. The Virgin. This Guadalajara is so rich in cathedrals, so rich in appearances, that I am sure that these are the true foundations of the city and its misfortune: the rain washes away the sin of this world…”