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Quotes About Rebellion

What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
~ Julio Cortazar
La gente que se da citas precisas es la misma que necesita papel rayado para escribirse o que aprieta desde abajo el tubo del dentífrico
~ Julio Cortazar
Menos mal que ni vos ni yo somos cursis, porque de aquí salía uno muerto y el otro con las esposas puestas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Kinder sollen nie Wein trinken. (Außer an Neujahr; dann sollen sie saufen.)
~ Julio Cortazar
INSTRUCCIONES PARA CANTAR. Empiece por romper los espejos de su casa, deje caer los brazos, mire vagamente la pared, olvídese.
~ Julio Cortazar
Valía más renunciar, porque la renuncia a la acción era la protesta misma y no su máscara.
~ Julio Cortazar
Sólo la verdad es revolucionaria
~ Julio Cortazar
yo no puedo acercar los dedos a un libro, ceñir apenas el cono de luz de una lámpara, destapar la caja de música, sin que un sentimiento de ultraje y desafío me pase por los ojos como un bando de
~ Julio Cortazar
Sólo viviendo absurdamente se podría romper alguna vez este absurdo infinito», se repitió Oliveira.
~ Julio Cortazar
Y su moraleja es así: 'No hay tercera dimensión, la tierra es plana, el hombre repta. ¡Aleluya!' Quizá sea el diablo quien dice estas cosas, y quizá tú las crees porque te las dice un rey.
~ Julio Cortazar
Qué es la tragedia? Una inmensa, atronadora puteada contra Zeus.
~ Julio Cortazar
Messieurs les douaniers, assez de conneries, ouvrez d'une bonne fois le colis, nom de Dieu, merde alors[3].
~ Julio Cortazar
Estoy harto de palabras, perras sedientas!
~ Julio Cortazar
Pasa que los cronopios no quieren tener hijos, porque lo primero que hace un cronopio recién nacido es insultar groseramente a su padre, en quien oscuramente ve la acumulación de desdichas que un día serán las suyas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
~ Julio Cortazar
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
~ Julius Caesar
Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim.
~ Julius Lester
The development of the peoples means a rebellion
~ Julius Nyerere
Our runaways may well be the backbone courageous among our kids: the ones who will risk hunger and forced prostitution and jail and death, in order to say NO to this overwhelming suffocation and victimizing, adult defeat into which they have been trapped, by dint of being born.
~ June Jordan
We all wish not to be disturbed. Instead we want to live out our lives in feasting and idleness, hoping the ugliness of this rebelius world will never touch us. Ignoring death, pretending it will never happen, or that if it does, the great, kind, merciful God will overlook our years of defiance and whisk us off to some magical land where we can go right on in our wicked ways.
~ June Strong
You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced - like totally utterly convinced - that the world was going to blow itself to pieces.
~ Junot Diaz
Yes, the wildness was in me, yes it kept my heart beating fast all the long day, yes it danced around me while I walked down the street, yes it let me look boys straight in the face when they stared at me, yes it turned my laugh from a cough into a long wild fever, but I was still scared. How could I not be? I was my mother's daughter. Her hold on me stronger than love.
~ Junot Diaz
Every time someone gives you a formula for what you should be and what you should do, you should know they're giving you a pair of handcuffs.
~ Junot Diaz
It was the curse that made me do it, you know. I don't believe in that sh*t, Oscar. That's our parents' sh*t. It's ours, too, he said.
~ Junot Diaz