José Baroja: Trending quotes (page 5)

“He still blamed himself for having believed someone who, without a doubt, lied better than he did.”

“Although he still continued to go out walking alone, it was also true that with every outing, in each of them, he used to feel something strange and dark accumulating within him.”

“Undoubtedly, he feared that smile”

“Having accepted this, there was nothing left but to adapt to the new conditions, a task that cost him a world or perhaps two.”

“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.”

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

“School is not a daycare center.”

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

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

“From the margins, one can speak with irony, tenderness, and rage.”

“Poets are here to disturb the status quo.”

“The city is not just a setting, but also a character with its own voice.”

“The city becomes an ideal metaphor for how I perceive human beings.”

“Literature must avoid propaganda or moralism if it truly wants to be critical and open.”

“Walking with open senses reveals stories in the smallest everyday details.”

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

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

“I have been opposed, from the beginning, to presenting ideological, political, or religious pamphleteering stances that seek to simplify the human experience into functional Manichaeism.”

“I’m not interested in portraying the official city, the one that appears on postcards or government videos, but that other one—the one that pulses on the margins.”