Pipe Pelaez

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“En cambio, es un triunfo de la vida que la memoria de los viejos se pierda para las cosas que no son esenciales, pero que raras veces falle para las que de verdad nos interesan. Cicerón lo ilustró de una plumada: «no hay un anciano que olvide dónde escondió su tesoro».”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera