Top 8 Javier Cercas Quotes
#1. It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.
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#2. All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.
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#3. Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.
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#4. If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.
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#5. All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.
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#6. Fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.
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#7. I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and
punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.
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#8. Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.
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