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You could play the ball with advantage not only because of the pass, but because of your positioning on the pitch and even the way your body was placed, for instance.

La emotividad en el arte, argüía Flaubert, es barata, de folletín. El arte debe ser frío y contenido para que sea el espectador, no el autor, quien brinde el sentimiento a la obra, y no a la inversa.

Conocer esa arista romántica de mi hermano me emocionó como si de una novela de supermercado se tratara.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

The entry wound cried a single tear of blood. Such an insignificant wound, but Death was nesting in it.

In you, we have given this world a great gift—and of that, I have no doubt.

Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI—it's Radio-fucking-Shack.

I guess a vampire doesn't have much need for good hygiene.

who but a career academic has a favorite philosopher?—

But I think it is a hopeful story. Is not some underwater paradise preferable to a life of poverty and incest and violence?

What had brought him to this outpost of hell? Ferreira wondered while following Garces into the rain: fate or his own decisions?

los lunes contenía partículas que empujaban a las personas a sospechar que habían sido víctimas de una broma de pésimo gusto. Durante

Soy un escritor, no su jodida secretaria! Mi casa no es una oficina, es el refugio de un hombre que intenta concentrarse cuarenta minutos seguidos.

We grew up in the smug belief that although the mixed economy was inefficient, it was better than capitalism because it preserved democratic freedoms.

My aim in this book has been throughout an historical, not an apologetic aim.

Nichts, nichts in der Welt hat so unwiderstehliche Gewalt der Eroberung wie das Gute.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

Ho didn't know how prescient those words were, as they fundamentally changed the course of Mexican food in the United States for like the thirtieth time ever.

The praxis on which liberation theology reflects is a praxis of solidarity in the interests of liberation and is inspired by the gospel.