Carlos Crespo

“De la Peña és un cas de premonició col-lectiva eternament incomplerta. Tots els que l'hem defensat sabem que no tenim raó però ens neguem a admetre-ho. En sobretaules de sopars de Nadal especialment nostàlgics, quan arriba l'hora de les confessions o quan baixem els cartrons i els papers dels regals al contenidor, impulsats per l'excès d'alcohol i d'hidrats de carboni, ens veiem amb cor d'afirmar que De la Peña és el millor jugador que hem vist mai. És una afirmació tramposa i oportunista perquè tothom sap que hem admirat amb molta més devoció altres jugadors però, en els debats culers, sempre hi ha un moment en què arrisques més del compte i, com feia De la Peña, calcules malament les conseqüencies del que, en principi, semblava una genialitat o una bona idea. A prop del contenidor, aquesta afirmació pot derivar en el descobriment d'un altre delapeñista i aleshores les abraçades són d'una calidesa nadalenca.”
― Sergi Pàmies, Confessions d'un culer defectuós

“He once told me about polar bears - what solitary animals they are. They mate just once a year. One time in a whole year. There is no such thing as a lasting male-female bond in their world. One male polar bear and one female polar bear meet by sheer chance somewhere in the frozen vastness, and they mate. It doesn't take long. And once they are finished, the male runs away from the female as if he is frightened to death: he runs from the place where they have mated. He never looks back - literally. The rest of the year he lives in deep solitude. Mutual communications - the touching of two hearts - do not exist for them. So, that is the story of polar bears - or at least it is what my employer told me about them.'

How very strange.'

Yes, it is strange. I remember asking my employer, ' Then what do polar bears exist for?' ' Yes, exactly,' he said with a big smile. 'Then what do we exist for?”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“And so my last policy recommendation is to listen to the dissidents, even if you do not like what they have to say. They are the ones who reveal to us the dark realities of our societies, the realities that most of us have the luxury to turn away from. Listen to the dissidents because they warn us of the threats that target minorities first and inevitably spread to the majority. Every society has his dissidents, not just dictatorships. They speak for the disenfranchised, the ignored, and the persecuted. Listen to them now, because they speak of what is to come.”
― Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

“I bet in big cities you can walk down the street scrowling and no one will ask you what's wrong or encourage you to smile, but everyone here has the attitude that we're lucky to live in Hawaii; paradise reigns supreme. I think paradise can go fuck itself.”
― Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants