Juan Goytisolo Quotes
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.
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The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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I hate art auctions.
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I've learned how to make a nice souffle, a little mac and cheese.
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Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.
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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
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Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
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Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.
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The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.
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When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
