"I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru."

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Source : "This Week in Fiction: Daniel Alarcón" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2013.

Daniel Alarcon

#Cities Quotes #Radio Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.”
“Those who make us believe that anythingâ€™s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every reason to despair, but donâ€™t, may have the most to teach us, not only about how to hold true to our beliefs, but about how such a life can bring about seemingly impossible social change.”
“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth”

Source : "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.
“Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights”
“In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.”
“All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.”
“Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health are very, very high in radiation matters. It is essential that people take no chance that conflict-of-interest is producing radiation databases which cannot be trusted.”

Source : John Gofman's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1992.

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