Cristina Garcia Quotes

#1. Those who speak know nothing. Those who know are silent.

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#2. I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them wince twenty years from now when they look at old photographs of themselves.

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#3. She wonders if memory is little more than this: a series of erasure and perfected selections.

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#4. Mirrors are for misery, nothing more ... they record decay.

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#5. Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is permitted to grow old slowly. Nobody talks of the past, for fear their wounds might reopen. Privately though, their wounds never heal.

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#6. Would you mind taking off your shirt?

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#7. I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea's consoling silence.

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#8. You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

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#9. I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness?

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#10. Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district ... But after his first phrase
'Using the back door will cost you double'
I withdrew my request.

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#11. The salesmen bought me perfume and invited me to lunch. But they couldn't talk to me about why families of guajiros slept in the city's parks under flashing Coca-Cola signs. Those men only murmured sweet nonsense to me, trying in vain to flatter me.

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#12. It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

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#13. To live your life even half right seems extraordinary.

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#14. No small amount of schadenfreude. Do you know what that means?"
"Dad, it's the lifeline of gossip. Of course I know what it means.

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#15. You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

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#16. Poetry by its very nature is subversive ... It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.

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