"I'm not a Mexican writer, but I think everything that happens in Mexico affects the Mexican writers I know, in their sense of being human and of being Mexican, even if they don't in any explicit way address these issues in their writing."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Francisco Goldman

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mexican Quotes

“Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.”
“History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan
“Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.”
“Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.”
“When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”
“Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent or hard work of the people within that pool, but it does narrow the field of stories that have been told, and of the creative ideas and perspectives out there.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.”
“This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.”

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