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Mientras tenga preguntas y no tenga respuesta continuaré escribiendo.
~ Clarice Lispector
She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.
~ Clarice Lispector
What am I in this instant? I am a typewriter making the dry keys echo in the dark and humid early hours. For a long time I haven't been people. They wanted me to be an object. I'm an object. An object dirty with blood. That creates other objects and the typewriter creates all of us. It demands. The mechanism demands and demands my life. But I don't obey totally: if I must be an object let it be an object that screams.
~ Clarice Lispector
Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. There is a time when you must take a picture of yourself. Hunger is always the same as the first hunger. The need renews itself empty and entire.
~ Clarice Lispector
It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily transmitte to itself, or rather, to the very person who is thinking it; and that is why - because it has a form - it has a limited reach. Whereas the thought called "freedom" is free as an act of thought. It's so free that even to its thinker it seems to have no author.
~ Clarice Lispector
Eu queria iniciar uma experiência e não apenas ser vítima de uma experiência não autorizada por mim, apenas acontecida.
~ Clarice Lispector
Tienes la costumbre de querer saber por qué -el por qué no me interesa, la causa es la materia del pasado.
~ Clarice Lispector
I want geometric streaks that cross in the air and form a disharmony that I understand. Pure 'it
~ Clarice Lispector
And it irritated me beyond all measure that a thought so enormous and ludicrous should return when my logic had dismissed it.
~ Clark Ashton Smith
My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.
~ Claude Monet
Age and use do not make a style obsolete in the church as they do in secular entertainment; rather, they consecrate it.
~ Unknown
While I know you (and I) hold brevity to be the soul of wit, description should not be the second-class citizen
~ Unknown
Here's the best thing about being a writer: it's like having a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to imaginary people in a made-up world. Here's the worst thing about being a writer: it makes you wish even more that you had a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to actual people in your own real life" -Autumn
~ Unknown
There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.
~ Claudio Magris
I did get a degree in special education.
~ Clay Aiken
it, as she would a grand prize. The woman's dignity is at stake and is more to be valued than this one degraded coin.
~ Unknown
I was full of myth, which is to say full of an idea.
~ Unknown
I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a man's man.
~ Cleveland Amory
I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
~ Cliff Stearns
Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
~ Cliff Stearns
As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls
~ Unknown
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
~ Clifford Geertz
The 1844 judgment - more than the state of the dead, the Sabbath, the second coming - establishes the validity of Adventism.
~ Unknown
West in Buffalo Bayou. Why don't they like that? "Because it casts reasonable doubt on David West's story! "It is unreasonable to believe that a woman was
~ Clifford Irving