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“Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down”
― Stephen King, The Long Walk

“Mil cosas solicitan a la vez nuestra atención y ninguna de ellas logra retenernos; así la vida se nos vuelve arena entre los dedos y las horas humo en el cerebro.”
― Octavio Paz Solórzano

“If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless.

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart. And the more people saved, the less they had.”
― Michael Ende, Momo

“There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
― H.G. Wells

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

“Continué viéndola y aún la recuerdo así: soberbia y mendicante, inclinada hacia el brazo que sostenía la valija, no paciente, sino desprovista de la comprensión de la paciencia, con los ojos bajos, generando con su sonrisa el apetito suficiente para seguir viviendo, para contar a cualquiera, con un parpadeo, con un movimiento de la cabeza, que esta desgracia no importaba, que las desgracias sólo servían para marcar fechas, para separar y hacer inteligibles los principios y los finales de las numerosas vidas que atravesamos y existimos”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, Los adioses

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“Y que me gana la risa.

Empecé a reír poshombre con risa muy mía muy interna porque cuando no se entienden las cosas no queda otra cosa y además el lugar es santo y siempre hay que tener respeto ¿no? pero no podía parar y empecé a carcajearme. Lleno de miedo oí como los gallos contestaban y la bruta risa se repitió por los corrales cercanos, alzándose en las cuestas y caracoleando por las calles. Comprendí que algo había que hacer pacalmarla y me aticé un chingadazo en la boca con tamaña piedra. Pior. Más risa me dio al escupir tanto miedo ¡Es una enfermedá! Alhora que subió el sol y las gentes llegaban a rezarle a sus ánimas y a limpiar las sepulturas, a dejarles flores, Jaimias, hijo de Alquimias y Gameta, se estaba orinando de la risa. Mismito arriba de su propio nombre.

¡Véanme! Yo Jaimias Más Omenos. Jaimias Más Omenos. Mjt. Dijeron don Lobo y don Crepúsculo sin hacerme caso al pasar por ahí. Irreverente siempre fue ¡Cállense por diositosanto! no digan pendejadas que me voy a morir desta risa ¿no ven las lágrimas? ya ni respirar puedo.”
― Mario de Lille Fuentes, Primero la voz : antología de narrativa contemporánea de Tabasco

“Bújcale Bújcale papacito y por Dioj que me vajencontrá eso sin júralo yo no me meto contigo pero tampoco soy su juguete ta bien que lleguej siempre tarde y agarrej la parranda porque a cual máj de tuj amigotes a mí eso qui mimporta pero cuando se acaba la paciencia entoncej sí ya parece que tejtoy viendo dejcarao jijueputa conojco comemierda de los máj grande pero como tú nadie namás eso me faltaba andá metiendo a tuj conquijtaj barataj (…)”
― Mario de Lille Fuentes, Primero la voz : antología de narrativa contemporánea de Tabasco

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
― Sergei Rachmaninov

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
― Marcel Proust

“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Marcel Proust, Time Regained