Mario Ballon
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“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
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“Cuando algo se puede leer sin esfuerzo, es porque hay mucho esfuerzo en su escritura". Enrique Jardiel Poncela.”
― Cómo crear una novela. Planificación
― Cómo crear una novela. Planificación
“many of the issues I discuss in this book are not simply about senior executives who face criminal punishment, but are just as applicable to others who are enmeshed in murky situations who are never likely to face a public reckoning.”
― Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
― Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal
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