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José Baroja photo

“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.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Entrevista de Miguel Esteban Torreblanca. https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706



Feeling
José Baroja photo

“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/

Literature , Books
José Baroja photo

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

José Baroja book Mi último invierno
José Baroja photo

“We know well that there is poverty in Latin America, beyond the beauty of our nations.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

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

Beauty

“.. When an individual, e. g. higher forms of animals, thinks, it is always for his own advantage whether the resulting action or expression is favorable or not to the onlookers or observers.”

Isidro A. T. Savillo (1959) Filipino biologist

The Overpowering Influence of the Environment to Gene Expression, Biologybrowser.org, 2002 http://biologybrowser.org/node/1154589,

Thinking , Animals
José Baroja photo

“…sometimes I feel like I betray the writer when I try to teach literature.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/la-literatura-la-biografia-emocional-humano-se-ha-atrevido-escribirla

Literature , Feeling
Isidro A. T. Savillo quote: “It is you who judges who you are. In this way, the judgment is accurate.”

“It is you who judges who you are. In this way, the judgment is accurate.”

Isidro A. T. Savillo (1959) Filipino biologist

Impermanence of Sexual Phenotypes, Biologybrowser.org, 2010-01-18 http://biologybrowser.org/node/1375127,

Way
José Baroja photo

“For me, the important thing is still the people.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fuente: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/academico-la-ucm-presento-segunda-antologia-hijo-perra-otros-cuentos

People
Andrzej Majewski photo

“Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

People , Art
José Baroja photo

“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/

Money , Memory , Time , Country
José Baroja photo

“I believe that academics do not flow naturally with this world, since, many times, the Academy, from those all-knowing egos, which are not lacking, turns the literary into a mere object lacking spirit.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: Fuente: https://portal.ucm.cl/noticias/academico-la-ucm-presento-segunda-antologia-hijo-perra-otros-cuentos

World , Time , Nature
Yuzuru Hanyu photo

“If I can't do it, I will work on it until I can. If I become able to do it, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly. If I become able to do it perfectly, I will work on it until I can do it perfectly any number of times.”

Yuzuru Hanyu (1994) Japanese figure skater (1994-)

Annotation: It's unclear, whether this quote is from Hanyu himself or based on a commercial script, but it's commonly attributed to him.
Original: (ja) できなかったら、できるまでやる。できるようになったら、完璧にできるまでやる。完璧にできるようになったら、何度でも、完璧にできるまでやる。
Source: Attributed, Lines from a TV commercial for 味の素 アミノバイタル (AJINOMOTO amino VITAL), released on 1 October 2014, as quoted in フィギュアスケート14-15シーズン序盤号, published on 15 November 2014 by 日刊スポーツ新聞社 (Nikkan Sports News).

Time
Bob Marley photo

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
People , Feeling
Andrzej Majewski quote: “If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”
Andrzej Majewski photo

“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Andrzej Majewski photo

“Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Women , Beauty , Light , Night
Andrzej Majewski photo

“Man invented clothing to cover the superficial and to discover the inside.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Clothes
Samuel Beckett photo

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Samuel Beckett book Worstward Ho

Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Motivational , Success , Business , Graduation
Andrzej Majewski photo

“The tragedy of a thoughtless man is not that he doesn't think, but that he thinks that he's thinking.”

Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

Thinking