José Baroja: Trending quotes

“I never feel like a text is completely finished. Over and over again I reread it, preferably out loud, until a certain tiredness leads me to send it to the editor, who will decide whether it is published or not.”

“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

“The resignation it looks like rain and that explains why the rain can bring resignation.”

“Without money there is no lasting imagination in this city!”

“In democracy, wishing bad for an incoming government is like buying a gun, buying the bullets, loading it and wishing to be killed with it: sovereign dogmatic stupidity.”

“…resignation is like the rain in Mexico City, sometimes sad, arbitrary and inopportune.”

“…we transform the sublime into an onion to remain unread.”

“The person on foot realizes that there is no misery in cities like Madrid or Barcelona, ​​first world cities that, I think, have lost the heart that Latin Americans still have.”

“Good literature should disturb the status quo, not preach.”

“The Chilean silence is one of repression; the Mexican, of resignation.”

“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”

“Telling stories from the margins is a symbolic act of justice.”

“What society refuses to see is what most strongly defines it.”

“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”

“Proud to be a "damn South American" and not a "suck-up" to the United States.”

“School is not a daycare center.”

“Just a moment ago, he was certainly contemplating a shadow on the ground, and now he was the shadow contemplating himself.”

“I must say that in Chile, the supremacy of the Market as the all-powerful governing body has made the development of the cultural field even more difficult than in Mexico.”

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”