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“La cachetada sobrevino a gran velocidad. El fuerte ardor en la cara de Balsabio se transformó en furia incontenible, la cual a su vez se transformó pocos instantes después en furia contenible, convirtiéndose finalmente esta en furia contenida. José Balsabio pensó que cualquier acción bélica de su parte daría lugar a una reacción diez veces más potente. También pensó en la posibilidad de que un gesto suyo de ternura tuviera también una respuesta diez veces más tierna del jefe del servicio de vigilancia. Pero no quiso hacer la prueba, le pareció ridículo sonreírle a alguien que le acababa de pegar.”
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“J’ai de sérieuses raisons de croire que la planète d’où venait le petit prince est l’astéroïde B 612. Cet astéroïde n’a été aperçu qu’une fois au télescope, en 1909, par un astronome turc. Il avait fait alors une grande démonstration de sa découverte à un congrès International d’astronomie. Mais personne ne l’avait cru à cause de son costume. Les grandes personnes sont comme ça. Heureusement pour la réputation de l’astéroïde B 612, un dictateur turc imposa à son peuple, sous peine de mort, de s’habiller à l’européenne. L’astronome refit sa démonstration en 1920, dans un habit très élégant.”
― Le Petit Prince (70e Édition Anniversaire: entièrement illustrée avec grandes illustrations)
― Le Petit Prince (70e Édition Anniversaire: entièrement illustrée avec grandes illustrations)
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“Todo es tan confuso por estos días, no se sabe quién piensa qué, qué es bien o qué está mal. Quizás esté vencido un orden de cosas y haya llegado la hora de reestructurar. O de des: desestructurar. Lo viejo, lo rancio. ¿Dónde se aloja el mal? ¿En la mentira? ¿Qué es lo que causa dolor? ¿Es la expectativa? ¿Y cuál es la diferencia entre dolor y sufrimiento, uno es noble y el otro no? ¿Y cuál es el umbral? De lo que se puede soportar. ¿Es cultural o individual? Si uno no espera nada de nada no habría decepción sino sólo suceso, hecho, presente. Sin especulación. ¿Es la especulación, entonces, lo que hace daño, lo que hiere? Es probable. Y sin embargo todo esto no se superpone con el deseo, el deseo es una fuerza que está bien, que moviliza, pero sin sentenciar. La expectativa de vida, por ejemplo, esa noción. Siempre duele que alguien muera, ¿por qué? ¿Porque se quería más? Más de uno, más de sí mismo, más del otro en el mundo, más; donde todo se convierte entonces en una cuestión de cantidad. Eso, también, debería vencerse alguna vez.”
― Acá todavía
― Acá todavía
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
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