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Hector Tobar

"I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to bring them closer to those people, and I know I have to work extra hard at my craft to reach across these increasing chasms, these gaps that exist between different kinds of Americans, and that's the work of the artist, is to create these works that sort of help us understand our time."

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Hector Tobar

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“The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.”
“They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.”
“I just... want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.”
“I'd like to say that I'm a binge-watcher, but I don't really have time. I think the most I've done in a sit-down is three episodes, maybe. It depends.”

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“All media is moving, at light speed, toward development through viral channels.”

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“Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.”

Source : William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13
“Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.”
“He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.”

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