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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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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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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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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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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I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.
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I was a fat child and loved cake, perhaps because it was the only sweet thing in my life.
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I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
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I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.
