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Quotes by Spanish Authors

"Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes."

"If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it."


"There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad."

"A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity."

"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."


"I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous."

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."


"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."


"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."


"Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next."


"The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration."


"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight."


"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant."


"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."


"Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly."

"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music."

"To stay at my best, I have to stop talking during the preceding day."


"I am I plus my circumstances."

"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."


"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality."


"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."


"The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice."

"I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity."

"The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause."

"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."

"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it."

"We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration."

"Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you."

"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."

"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

"I've always said that playing rugby in Spain is like being a bullfighter in Japan."

"We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it."
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