Ernesto Cardenal Quotes
I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.
