"To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it."

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Source : Alejandro Zambra (2013). “Ways of Going Home”, p.33, Granta Books

Alejandro Zambra

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“In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons.”
“I can't see how a single man could spend his time to better advantage than in the Marines.”

Source : "The Marines' Bulletin", Vol. 1, Issues 1-3, 1918.
“You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.”
“Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.”
“He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside â€” why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening â€” I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly.”

Source : Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.123, Random House
“Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself.”
“From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.”
“We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.”

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