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“With the warmth and pleasure that are the results of an intimate relationship with another human being, whether friend, lover, parent or child , comes the pain to which such intimacy makes us vulnerable. With hearts and minds fused we bruise as easily as we caress.”
― TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES
― TREES ON THE CLIFF : A NOVEL OF KOREA AND TWO STORIES
“[he] thought that war consumed people from the inside, leaving them without ethical substance; it reduced them to blurry and dusty scarecrows who simply repeated gestures learned at an earlier age of the universe. The blindness of the conflict left them like trees riddled with termites.”
― Rattlesnake
― Rattlesnake
“I can’t believe the way they’re building prisons. Then they fill ‘em up with damn fools on nickel-and-dime drug cases. They make maniacs of ‘em up there, and then turn them loose on the public. It’s like they were growin’ maniacs in hothouses.”
― Dog Eat Dog
― Dog Eat Dog
“God’s country! With Negros treated like animals! God’s country, with its smug sense of superiority to the rest of the world! God’s country, with its mania for material gadgets and signs that warn: “Gentiles only!”
― Ashes of Izalco
― Ashes of Izalco
“… then I realized that my brother’s philosophy books weren’t simple books … or rather they were, but only everywhere else, not in Chile in those days.”
― Una casa vacía
― Una casa vacía
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