"I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Sergio Chejfec

#Believe Quotes #Literature Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“I'm happy with what I've achieved.”
“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
“We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.”
“How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.”
“Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Apr 24, 2014
“Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.”
“After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.”

Source : Farley Mowat (1985). “My Discovery of America”, McClelland & Stewart

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