Alejandro Zambra Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I think I would find being in Hollywood intense if I had more of a social life, but all I do is stay indoors with my sister and play with our puppy, watch movies.
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Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.
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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.
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To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive
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As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.
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I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.
