Juan Goytisolo Quotes
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.
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I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.
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The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center… in the political sphere… the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
