José Baroja citations

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“…une question qui n’enlève rien au fait que, ici à l’extérieur, c’est une ville coincée dans le portefeuille gonflé de quelque homme politique, de tel ou tel bureaucrate ou de Chapo lui-même en service, tous déjà habitués à « jouer à l’Amérique quand ils le veulent ». obtenez un peu de puissance; ou bien ils en héritent.”

“Conditionnés comme des moutons dans un troupeau, ils ont seulement réussi à dire « abeille », ce qui, traduit en langage martial, serait « Oui, monsieur ».”

“…on transforme le sublime en oignon pour rester non lu.”

“Qui demande aujourd’hui à votre vers où va le pays?”

“La peur réapparaît tous les jours, sous la douche, en regardant la télévision, même en buvant simplement du café.”

“La personne à pied se rend compte qu'il n'y a pas de misère dans des villes comme Madrid ou Barcelone, des villes du premier monde qui, je pense, ont perdu le cœur qu'ont encore les Latino-Américains.”

“Je pense que vivre uniquement de l’écriture est un privilège, en termes économiques, que seuls quelques écrivains ont atteint et auquel aspirent probablement tous les auteurs : un objectif difficile mais pas impossible.”

“Pour un écrivain, la vie doit être le centre que la mort éclaire quotidiennement.”

“Qui de mieux qu’un latino-américain pour écrire sur les tromperies et autres histoires.”

“Céder à l’argent de l’État ou du privé est une connerie.”

“Ce qui se rapproche le plus du Purgatoire est un bâtiment gouvernemental, seul le premier n'existe pas et le second est bien réel.”

“Horacio était le proxénète que Dieu leur avait envoyé, grâce à lui, ils ne passaient plus beaucoup de temps en cellule, la police n'en profitait pas, ils étaient moins battus et on ne leur criait presque plus.”

“La résignation ressemble à de la pluie, tout simplement, et cela explique pourquoi la pluie peut amener la résignation.”

“Après ce "amen", Evaristo a découvert les visages d'approbation et de peur de son public, il savait donc qu'il les avait déjà entre ses mains.”

“… Au fil du temps, il se rendrait compte que plus il était haut, moins il courait de danger et plus il contrôlait la masse toujours prête.”

“Anita s'est plainte pitoyablement, car ce n'est pas parce qu'ils ne vous écoutent pas à cause de votre « petite » voix que cela ne vous fait pas de mal.”

“En démocratie, souhaiter du mal à un nouveau gouvernement, c’est comme acheter une arme, acheter des balles, la charger et souhaiter être tué avec: une stupidité dogmatique souveraine.”

“Je n’ai jamais l’impression qu’un texte est complètement terminé. Je le relis sans cesse, de préférence à voix haute, jusqu'à ce qu'une certaine lassitude m'amène à l'envoyer à l'éditeur, qui décidera s'il sera publié ou non.”

“…parfois, j’ai l’impression de trahir l’écrivain lorsque j’essaie d’enseigner la littérature.”

“Je crois que les universitaires ne coulent pas naturellement avec ce monde, car, bien souvent, l'Académie, à partir de ces egos omniscients, qui ne manquent pas, transforme le littéraire en un simple objet dépourvu d'esprit.”

“Nous savons bien qu’il y a de la pauvreté en Amérique latine, au-delà de la beauté de nos nations.”

“Si nous nous concentrons uniquement sur le fait de gagner de l'argent, les connaissances des gens seront réduites jusqu'à ce que nous devenions des experts dans notre domaine, mais ignorants des êtres humains”

“Pour moi, l'important, ce sont toujours les gens.”

“I'll go out on a limb and say that that glow arose from his past.”

“The closest thing to purgatory is a government agency, only the first does not exist and the second is very real.”

“They never noticed the one who, silently, sustained this story, chose the future, set the guidelines for their memories and desires.”

“This is how, without the consent of the two lovers, of its two main characters, of the only ones who were originally worth anything in this short story, the narrator decided to incorporate two more words into the plot: “doubt” and “uncertainty.””

“After that “amen,” Evaristo discovered the faces of approval and fear of his audience, so he knew that he already had them in his hands.”

“In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.”

“She, perhaps, with a consciousness that many of us in adulthood lack or simply lost, would associate that so much water falling on our fat and heavy heads was due to the crying of some poet who was walking by.”

“How to be sure that nothing will happen, when you don't always need a reason to become one of those cursed and deceptive beings, those entities thrown from the cradle of God.”

“It's been years, months, days, but he still can't get out of his mind those horrible, inhuman images, monstrous creations of subjects who look the same as everyone else; equal to him.”

“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.”

“As a poet I am an emotional accident; a lyrical tourist.”

“If this were a story, we could affirm that it was a stereotype of an old lady, within a space that had lost its daily life around the corner.”

“Suddenly, as the sun rose, the poem flew without an owner, while he faded away like a fiction called a “story.””

“He cannot stop imagining his bloody hands or himself lying mortally at the bottom of that bathtub, which, for now, serves as his refuge, as his escape from the World, from that which is outside, but which, Any day now, I could decide to go in.”

“In my opinion, and beyond the different definitions about this literary genre or the absurd academic discrepancies about its constitution or taxonomy, the story is above all an experiential art.”

“Anita complained pitifully, because just because they don't listen to you because of your “small” voice, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt you.”

““Godín”, is said in Mexico of the office worker from nine to eighteen hours or of any other employee to whom his immediate boss says, during his first day of work and with all the naturalness in the world: “Welcome. From today, your body and soul belong to us.”

“Before becoming godín, Jaime worked for a miserable 79 mexican pesos an hour as a subject professor in one of the many universities in Guadalajara; very little for any future aspirations and very little for any present aspirations.”

“Contrary to what some might believe, writing does not generate enjoyment or pleasure in itself, quite the opposite; And yet, I feel the need to write fiction as if I have a feeling that I will find something in the middle of my narrative journey, no matter how painful it may be.”

““I love you”, “I love you”, “I love you”, they said it for every moment in which they swore eternity and something more, to the point that it was annoying for those of us who were close, because, in reality, who loves each other so much? nowadays.”

“The demons are always around and he knows it.”

“Already in his old age, at seventy-five years old, after being seriously hospitalized for a severe heart attack, Javier Pérez would remember that only once in his entire existence had he believed he understood what life was.”

“The fear reappears every day, while showering, while watching television, even when just drinking coffee.”

“Promoting reading is a moral responsibility of writers.”

“Unfortunately for him, it is not possible to die twice.”

“Who today asks your poem where the country is going?”

“…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.”

“… 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.”

“Today the writer has to be on the ground, because it is on the ground where he is needed most.”