Quotes About Perspective

Nothing is ever behind us.

I suppose all the movies I've seen will be worth nothing to me when I die. Wrong. They'll be worth something, believe me. Don't stop going to the movies.

Morini read the letter three times. With a heavy heart, he thought how wrong Norton was when she said her love and her ex-husband and everything they'd been through were behind her. Nothing is ever behind us.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

Todos estamos acostumbrados a morirnos cada cierto tiempo y tan poco a poco que la verdad es que cada día estamos más vivos. Infinitamente viejos e infinitamente vivos.

la relatividad de nuestra memoria que magnifica o empequeñece a discreción, un lenguaje que creemos conocer y que en verdad no conocemos.

Charly Cruz asked him if he liked Spike Lee. Yes, said Fate, although he didn't really. "He seems Mexican," said Charly Cruz. "Maybe," said Fate. "That's an interesting way to look at it." "And what about Woody Allen?" "I like him," said Fate. "He seems Mexican too...

Who was the first human being to look out a window?

Uno tiene que conocer gente de todas las clases, a veces es necesario empaparse de realidad

Nothing very expensive, as you can see, though when you're poor anything that isn't free is expensive.

últimamente me noto una tendencia preocupante a aceptar las cosas tal como son.

E incluso cabía una opción peor: que Cesárea hubiera torcido la realidad conscientemente.

We're two of a kind, that donkey and me, said Caridad in a dreamy voice. Foreigners in our own land. I would have liked to tell her she was wrong, to point out that in the eyes of the law, I was the only foreigner, but I kept my mouth shut. I put my arm gently around her waist and waited. Caridad might have been foreign to God, to the police and even to herself, but she wasn't foreign to me. I could have said the same for the donkey.

ter uma idéia do mundo, de certa maneira, é coisa fácil, todo o mundo tem, geralmente uma idéia circunscrita à sua aldeia, limitada ao torrão, às coisas tangíveis e medíocres que cada um tem diante dos olhos, e essa idéia do mundo, mesquinha, limitada, cheia de sebo familiar, costuma sobreviver e adquirir, com o passar do tempo, autoridade e eloqüência.

Every hundred feet the world changes, said Florita Almada. The idea that some places are the same as others is a lie. The world is a kind of tremor.

There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare.

La novelas, generalmente, eran heterosexuales, la poesía, en cambio, era absolutamente homosexual, los cuentos, deduzco, eran bisexuales, aunque esto no lo dijo.

La noción del tiempo, ah, la noción del tiempo de los enfermos, qué tesoro escondido en una cueva en el desierto. Los enfermos, por lo demás, muerden de verdad, mientras que las personas sanas hacen como que muerden pero en realidad sólo mastican aire.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are the minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

in a world where vast geographical spaces could suddenly shrink to the dimensions of a coffin

According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy

Si no tienes nada mejor que hacer y los problemas te están matando, consulta a las putas.

what we think of as peacefulness is wrong and peacefulness or the realms of peacefulness are really no more than a gauge of movement, an accelerator or a brake, depending.

Ahora sé que la cercanía no existe. Siempre alguien tiene los ojos cerrados. Uno ve cuando el otro no ve. El otro ve cuando uno no ve.