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I think every writer is a born actor. In first place, the writer takes on the role of themselves and really inhabits the part. A writer is someone who tires easily, and ends up feeling slightly bored with herself, since her intimate contact with herself is, of necessity, too prolonged.

Knowing how to forget evil is another way of remembering. (Saber olvidar lo malo es tener memoria). A Spanish proverb.

When you cannot find the words to express what is actually there, you have the impression of being blind. At such moments one stops for a coffee. Not that coffee helps one to find the right word but it represents a wild gesture of liberation, a gratuitous act which brings freedom.

can’t remember the last time a writer was so true to me…..feel joyous that this can still happen

People who don’t understand life think it’s just a series of things that happen. Those same people adore Van Gogh because he cut off his ear; Toulouse-Lautrec because he was a dwarf; Rembrandt because he starved to death; James Dean because he died in a car accident; Marilyn Monroe because she killed herself. Such people believe in posterity because they think they are posterity. Well then: I say stuff posterity.

I don’t like it when people say I have an affinity with Virginia Woolf (I only read her after writing my first book): the reason is that I do not want to forgive her for committing suicide. Our horrible duty is to keep going to the end. And not to rely on anyone. Live your own reality. Discover the truth. And in order to suffer less, numb yourself slightly.