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

“Latin American government decisions, in general terms, discourage the development of the arts, turning artists into true martyrs of a cause, creating a vicious cycle in which ordinary people fail to notice the importance of cultural development, focusing on money as the axis of their lives.”

“Today, going to schools is essential, since, just as doctors have a duty to protect life, writers must spread literature, because literature is in itself, along with art in general, the greatest form of freedom we still have.”

“Disrespect can forever break relationships of trust that even the most sincere apology could not recreate.”

“Anyone perform unjust and harmful actions behind your back, does not deserve any consideration.”

“The "how it went" does not depend on you, the "how it could go", instead, is all to be written.”

“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.”

“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

“It must certainly be considered true that once a work leaves our pen, it no longer belongs to us.”

“…the stories already published acquire, over the years, a different value than they had at their genesis: whether for better or for worse.”

“Communicating is art: you don't study and you don't learn, it's innate and very rare.”

“Europe. It’s the continent that looks like a dog’s head, with the Scandinavian countries. Can you see it? When I was little, that’s how I used to find France on a map: find the dog’s head, move down a bit, and there you are at home in the hexagon.”

“Europe. It’s the continent that looks like a dog’s head, with the Scandinavian countries. Can you see it? When I was little, that’s how I used to find France on a map: find the dog’s head, move down a bit, and there you are at home in the hexagon.”

“Thought and attention dedicated intermittently neither seduce nor attract, but tire.”

“You become special, in the arms of those you love.”

“Such was his desire that when he mentioned that El Lazarillo was the work of an anonymous author, all he could imagine was how much he would now wish to become that absolute ANON.”

“While it's true that, recently, Ramiro Gutiérrez had shown a tendency toward tearful and painful literature, he had never felt the same way, for example, as the pathetic Werther or the gallant Don Quixote.”

“She was such a beautiful, delicate apparition that she was on the verge of reciting a verse by Huidobro or Neruda right there, dedicated, by the way, to the little rose.”

“Has he gained weight?" He smiles a pathetic smile, seeing his reflection, sweaty and "almost dead," projected there on the glass of a dismantled display case full of mannequins.”