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“Reading words is connected to reading the world.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Contra la literatura útil. La Voz de Maipú. Newspaper.

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“Reading works out of sync.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Contra la literatura útil. La Voz de Maipú. Newspaper.

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“With time, one learns that one’s work is never finished.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM

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“The pleasure is not really in writing, it is in reading.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Manuel Raya Escritor. (2026, 21 marzo). ENTREVISTA AL ESCRITOR CHILENO JOSÉ BAROJA 🇨🇱✍🏼 [Vídeo]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrHyubZCFM

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“School is not a daycare center.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: 1480 AM Rock&Pop.

“The moon is red, sensing the future, it has dressed up for its gala, or the Devil has decorated it.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

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

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“Current school education in the United States is so bad that the only thing they got in 2025 was a bad Trump.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM Rock&Pop.

“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“If we focus only on making money, people's knowledge will be reduced until we become experts in our subject, but ignorant about human beings.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“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/

“Without underestimating the virtues of technical, specialized and necessary education, we cannot accept an education that eliminates the other dimension of human knowledge, that which motivates us to be more cultured, more human, deeper, more emotional.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

“No, they never expected or sensed the wishes of that omniscient narrator who, at times, wondered, accompanied by a glass of cabernet, about how his story should be constructed, how this story should develop.”

José Baroja book El curioso caso de la sombra que murió como un recuerdo y otros cuentos

“That work pride, that ridiculous work pride has put an end to his illusions, with those few illusions that he still had since at school they promised him a magnificent future just for entering university.”

José Baroja book No fue un catorce de febrero y otros cuentos

“I think that a literary work should not be a piece of spit thrown onto the road.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Interview. "No más cuentos para princesas".

“In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.”

Vera Rubin (1928–2016) American astronomer

“Relationships are the central part of life and also the hardest part of life and yet our schools teach us a minimum of 13 years of math and science and geography and history, but nothing about relationships and how to make them work.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Learn to love yourself a 100% by reconnecting back to Mother Nature. The reason why there is so much chaos going on is because we have disrespected our mother. What's happened now is that we are killing the one who is giving us life. We have to realize the greatness of nature. Bob Marley tried to warn you to see that in this concrete jungle, many of us are living in reverse. When you live in reverse L-I-V-E, it becomes evil…E-V-I-L. We have to see that just by letting go, it frees you…it does wonders.”

Ozzy Osbourne quote: “Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.”

“Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter

Source: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz