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Quotes by Argentinian Authors
"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
"I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness."
"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."
"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."
"I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket."
"Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead."
"God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with."
"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."
"I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny - that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be convertedinto words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end."
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away."
"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."
"If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast-I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people-perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven-but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination."
"The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement."
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone."
"What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people."
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
"My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets."
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
"I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with."
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
"I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"Where there is a worker, there lies a nation."
"Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow."
"Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly."
"When a writer dies, he becomes his books."
"One of the schools in Tlön has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than present memory."
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective."
"Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun."
"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous."
"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
"My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. They used to exchange books and periodicals; they would beat one another at chess, without saying a word."
"I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have."
"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
"One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever."
"I can't laugh, be happy, present myself at any prize and also win on the centre court."
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
"Novels include padding; I think padding may be an essential part of the novel, for all I know."
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."
"When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas."
"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity."
"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark."
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