Minor Gersalá

“Gracias por el castigo En Babilonia, la ciudad maldita, que según la Biblia fue puta y madre de putas, se estaba alzando aquella torre que era un pecado de arrogancia humana. Y el rayo de la ira no demoró: Dios condenó a los constructores a hablar lenguas diferentes, para que nunca más pudiera nadie entenderse con nadie, y la torre quedó para siempre a medio hacer. Según los antiguos hebreos, la diversidad de las lenguas humanas fue un castigo divino. Pero quizá, queriendo castigarnos, Dios nos hizo el favor de salvarnos del aburrimiento de la lengua única.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Espejos

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass

“Los que matan en la guerra deberían celebrar cada conquista con un funeral.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Espejos