"The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel...."

-- Jose Emilio Pacheco

#Historical Quotes #Privatization Quotes #Novel Quotes

“The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.”
“Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is the city where our fleshed-out inner selves reside.”
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”
“Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.”
“I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.”
“So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.”
“In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.”
“Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power.”

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