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“this is what I have been telling writing classes for years. You must feel not that you want to but that you have to.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ that was his. Som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it.”
― Of Mice and Men
― Of Mice and Men
“La primera nota caraterítica del amor es la exlusividad... El amor es individual o más exactamente, interpersonal: queremos únicamente a una persona y le pedimos a esa persona que nos quiera con el mismo afecto exclusivo.”
― The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
― The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
“No se puede tener lo de hoy y lo de ayer, no se puede ser a la vez quien se ha sido y quien se es. Hay que escoger. La felicidad ha de ser una. No puedes tener el Sol... y la Luna.”
― Conferencia sobre la lluvia
― Conferencia sobre la lluvia
“But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."
"Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten".
There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said that to you. For you rose to your feet as well and looked at me, affectionately and very surprised. You took me by the shoulders. "What's good is not forgotten; I will not forget you," you said, and as you did so you gazed intently at me as if to memorise my image.”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
"Yes" I said, "they come back, but then they have forgotten".
There must have been something odd, something passionate in the way I said that to you. For you rose to your feet as well and looked at me, affectionately and very surprised. You took me by the shoulders. "What's good is not forgotten; I will not forget you," you said, and as you did so you gazed intently at me as if to memorise my image.”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
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