Felipe González

@Reader1994, member from July 21, 2022

Academic.
Literature.
Books.
Movies.

José Baroja photo

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview.

José Baroja photo

“For a writer, life must be the focus that death illuminates daily.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Para un escritor la vida debe ser el foco que la muerte ilumina a diario.
Source: Zárate, Y. (2019). "José Baroja". En revista Momentos Ahora o nunca. Número 139. Tlaxcala, México; p. 24.

José Baroja photo

“Soon the crashes, the blackouts, the hypothermias, the demands for public lighting and a lot of misdeeds will hide the disappearances, the plots, the deaths, the domestic violence, the corruptions and a long etcetera…”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

José Baroja photo

“… sin is always far away, whether or not you are a Christian, whether or not you are a "morenista" or a "PRI" or whatever stupidity occurs to you.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

José Baroja photo

“…this is a story and, therefore, "something must happen", "something" bad, "something" that breaks your safe journey towards the bookstore and, surely, towards "love", because love is the last refuge left in my head or in the depths of any fucking soul.”

José Baroja book Sueño en Guadalajara y otros cuentos

“This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.”

Sarah Strohmeyer Smart Girls Get What They Want

Source: Smart Girls Get What They Want

Christopher Hitchens photo

“(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag…a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag…I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Quoted in The New Yorker, October 2006. According to writer Ian Parker, this was Hitchens' response to a dinner-party guest who made a favourable comment about Howard Dean. Parker states that Hitchens appeared heavily drunk at the time.
2000s, 2006

José Baroja photo

“We are just cogs and nuts of a few stupid people in power.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: La Otra Historia.
Radio show.

José Baroja photo

“Promoting reading is a moral responsibility of writers.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Trujillo, Estrella. Exclusive cultural interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

José José photo

“What I hate the most in the world is injustice. Unfortunately, there is a lot of injustice in the world. Once we understood the mission that God gave us in this earth that is to sing to love, try to repeat his word, spread his word, because there is no other thing that we do but sing to love, tell people to be happy. Not to hurt each other, hit each other, kill each other.”

José José (1948–2019) Mexican singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExtaUyCkYaY

José José photo

“For three years I was immersed in a depression, I did not know how to assimilate the loss of my voice, which was a reality.”

José José (1948–2019) Mexican singer

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/551253.html

José José photo

“I was a depressive and self-destructive alcoholic, but I was lucky enough to meet the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and be rescued by it 15 years ago.”

José José (1948–2019) Mexican singer

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/560409.html

José José photo

“The couples I married, I never chose them, they did.”

José José (1948–2019) Mexican singer

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/551253.html

José José photo

“Well, I like people a lot. I could define myself as a pacific being, a lover of nature, music and people. The qualities that I admire the most in the human being is the capacity of getting along with its similars in holy peace.”

José José (1948–2019) Mexican singer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExtaUyCkYaY

Francisco De Goya photo

“His Excellency Don José Palafox [famous Spanish general, who recaptured Zaragoza from the French army) called me to go to Zaragoza this week in order to see and examine the ruins of that city, with the intention that I should paint the glories of its inhabitants, something from which I cannot be excused because the glory of my native land [Goya was born in Zaragoza] interests me so much.”

Francisco De Goya (1746–1828) Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)

letter c. 1809, to the Secretary of the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid; as quoted by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003; p. 282 & note 13
Goya gave in this way his excuse he gave the Secretary of the Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, explaining why he could not be at the inauguration of the portrait, Goya had made of king Ferdinand VII, recently
1800s

Victor Villaseñor photo

“It was the greatest learning summer of my whole life, but then came the fall, and I was told that I’d have to go back to school again. “NO WAY, JOSÉ!” I screamed, because I now knew that at school they were trying to “break” us, not “amanzar” us.”

Victor Villaseñor (1940) American writer

Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)

José Saramago photo

“The caressing, melodious tones of humility and flattery never sang in the ears of the clerk Senhor José, these have never had a place in the chromatic scale of feelings normally shown to him.”

José Saramago book All the Names

Source: All the Names (1997), p. 8