Paulo da Costa > Quotes

“... CEOs are the ghost writers of the political discourse ...”
― paulo da costa, Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: Essays on Language, Identity and Writing Culture

“It is rare to find a person who reads the silence with the fluency of stone angels ...”
― paulo da costa, Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: Essays on Language, Identity and Writing Culture

“I value margins, for on the margins one finds room to grow.”
― paulo da costa, Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: Essays on Language, Identity and Writing Culture

“The silence surrounding words highlights their importance, assures us that the word was weighed, polished, contemplated, and deserves the light of day. Words without such reins are excessively dumped in the sea of everyday life, such as one purges interior contaminants—dumped far away from us into an atmosphere that we unconsciously pollute and which we all share. Such words exorcise our private dementia but ironically saturate the art until it risks drowning in a bog of mushy cacophony.”
― paulo da costa, Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey: Essays on Language, Identity and Writing Culture