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Quotes by Spanish Authors
"If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened."
"Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement."
"Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so."
"I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it."
"When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work."
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
"Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there."
"And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs."
"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."
"To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat."
"Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no."
"Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies."
"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
"He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers."
"Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart."
"We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy."
"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."
"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
"The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public."
"I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?"
"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
"Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns."
"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
"For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport."
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them."
"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
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