Alejandro Zambra Quotes

#1. I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

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#2. Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

Bruce R. McConkie

#3. I only found out about Eminem getting on the track like a month ago. As if the song couldn't get any better. He just slays me, he's such a genius.

Hayley Williams

#4. I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

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#5. Remember how they outlawed acid soon as they found out it was a channel to somethin they didn't want us to see? Why should information be any different?

Thomas Pynchon

#6. What's the purpose of being with someone if they don't change your life? She said that, and Julio was present when she said it: that life only had purpose if you found someone who changed it, who destroyed your life.

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#7. Growing up, I meant to be a memory.

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#8. I always thought I didn't have real childhood memories. That my history fit into a few lines. One one page, maybe. In large print. I don't think that anymore.

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#9. To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

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#10. I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

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#11. Crud. What was she supposed to do? Protect herself or the pretzels?

Stephanie Rowe

#12. Everyone gets erased -- life consists of meeting people whom first you love and then you erase -- but you can't erase children, you can't erase parents.

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#13. Because we can't, we don't know how to talk about a movie or a book anymore; the moment has come when movies and novels don't matter, only the time we saw them, read them: where we were, what we were doing, who we were then.

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#14. You will think that they ought to have been very happy. And so they were, but they did not know HOW happy till the pretty life in the Red Villa was over and done with, and they had to live a very different life indeed. The

E. Nesbit

#15. Every walk that I do, there's obstacles in the way. There's always somebody or something that comes across negative, but I live for that sort of thing.

Nik Wallenda

#16. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William S. Burroughs

#17. I must say that my father is innocent. I should say it. I have to say it. I'm obliged to say it. My father will kill me if I don't say he is innocent. The children of murderers cannot kill the father.

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#18. Love those who love you. Love those who love you not. Love those who hate you. Love those who hate you not. Love them all until they love you back, and when they love you back, LOVE THEM MORE!

Abhishek Kumar

#19. I don't think there's any point in meeting anybody who doesn't like music.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#20. What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.

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