Javier Cercas famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.
-- Javier Cercas

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
fiction is founded on truth....unless things did happen,people couldn't think of them.
Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

Javier Cercas famous quotes

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