José Baroja: Trending quotes (page 2)

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“If an anonymous reader finds in a fragment the key to name their own shame or their own tenderness, then the work has fulfilled its most precious social function.”

José Baroja

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“Power does not need to impose itself when it manages to pay you for your silence: a punctual paycheck is enough to make obedience seem like common sense.”

José Baroja

Source: 1480AM. La Otra Historia. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Silence , Sense

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

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Pain , People

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“The foundation and strength of human evolution lie in empathy.”

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. La Otra Historia. 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Lie

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“Does literature change social reality? Perhaps not. But it reveals it, brings it into the conversation—which is no small thing. It puts it in tension with reality itself. It strips it of its masks. It takes away the official discourse, or at least makes it squirm.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Literature , Change , Reality

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“Sometimes what screams the loudest in a city is what makes no sound.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

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

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

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“The urban allows me to explore those contradictions without falling into propagandistic or moralistic discourse; an essential matter, in my view, when it comes to literature.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Literature

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“Latin America’s right-wing has no shame in throwing itself at the highest bidder — their morals shift to match whoever’s holding the purse strings.”

José Baroja

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Dogs

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“A shadow on a wall or a stray dog sleeping in the same corner can say more than statistics.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Sleep , Dogs

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“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Way , Art , Sense

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“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

José Baroja

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“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.

Support

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“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

José Baroja

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico

Democracy , People

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“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”

José Baroja

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

José Baroja

Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja

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“Gaza is a wound that will never stop bleeding.”

José Baroja

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock and Pop. Guadalajara, Mexico.

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“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”

José Baroja

Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

Hunger , Reading , Suffering , Books

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

José Baroja

Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/

Literature