Victor Machado

“The Getty tells us that the past was perhaps different from the way we like to perceive it. Ancient marbles were not always attractively faded and worn. Ancient marbles once appeared just as they appear here: as strident, opulent evidence of imperial power and acquisition. Ancient murals were not always bleached and mellow and "tasteful." Ancient murals once looked as they do here: as if dreamed by a Mafia don. Ancient fountains once worked, and drowned out that very silence we have come to expect and want from the past. Ancient bronze once gleamed ostentatiously. The old world was once discomfitingly new.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“Linhas de expressão: a pior impressão que você pode causar”
― Vinícius Neves Mariano, Velhos demais para morrer

“With time, after a nuclear war, all present-day knowledge will be gone. Including the knowledge that the enemy was not North Korea, Russia, America, China, Iran, or anyone else vilified as a nation or a group. It was the nuclear weapons that were the enemy of us all. All along.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

“Em um mundo que luta contra o envelhecimento, falar sobre o passado é um ato de coragem.”
― Vinícius Neves Mariano, Velhos demais para morrer