Enrique Vila-Matas Quotes
When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.
Quotes to Explore
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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Time is the ultimate long tail. Even with a big wad of money up front, if something sells forever, the back end is what ultimately counts.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I always have to be writing.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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I always feel like any criminal who doesn't have a mask on is dumb: particularly the ones who don't realize that all mini-marts have cameras. I find that so hilarious. Or bank robbers without a mask. You're like, 'Have you seen no movies?'
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Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.
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Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.
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When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.
