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A Dream Come True: The Collected Stories of Juan Carlos Onetti

by Juan Carlos Onetti

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— May 17, 2025 02:11AM

May 17, 2025 02:11AM

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

tags: life

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“Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
― Alice Munro

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“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.”
― Paul Harding, Tinkers

tags: alive, confusion, death, life, souls, tinkers

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“Dreizehn Mann saßen auf einem Sarg,
Ho! Ho! Ho! - und ein Fass voller Rum.
Sie soffen drei Tage, der Schnaps war stark,
Ho! Ho! Ho! - und ein Fass voller Rum.
Sie liebten das Meer und den Schnaps und das Gold.
Ho! Ho! Ho! - und ein Fass voller Rum.
Bis einst alle dreizehn der Teufel holt,
Ho! Ho! Ho! - und ein Fass voller Rum.”
― Michael Ende, Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer

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“[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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