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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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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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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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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You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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It's the story that counts.
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I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.
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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
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There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.
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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.
