Recommended quotes

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“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”

“The urban allows me to explore those contradictions without falling into propagandistic or moralistic discourse; an essential matter, in my view, when it comes to literature.”

“Latin America’s right-wing has no shame in throwing itself at the highest bidder — their morals shift to match whoever’s holding the purse strings.”

“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

“A shadow on a wall or a stray dog sleeping in the same corner can say more than statistics.”

“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”

“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation.”

“I invest in people — be it politics or science. It's what I do.”

“It’s weird how Muslim Authors despise trade when their religion considers it as a pillar of faith”

“People live in a very ignorant way, they’re so taken by their quiet senses that they never realize the action going on in the universe around them, and this is only because they trust their senses that only show them a very tight spectrum of the occurring events”

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.”

“Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted…”

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”