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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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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I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
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At this very early stage in my career, I want people to experience the music first and let it drive their imagination and their experiences.
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
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The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
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I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.
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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.
