Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

#1. Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#2. There is always time to take more time.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#3. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#4. I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

Rudy Rucker

#5. The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#6. I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.

Linus Torvalds

#7. What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.

Waylon Jennings

#8. Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#9. Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#10. The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or a hangman. To prevent there being guilty men requires great astuteness.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#11. Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

John Irving

#12. Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#13. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#14. A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Jose Marti

#15. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#16. Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

Joyce Meyer

#17. My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way to break it to them that that girl doesn't exist anymore.

Charlie Donlea

#18. Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#19. Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings

#20. The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#21. In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Augusto Roa Bastos

#22. When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair

George Osborne

#23. The trick is to have a career and have a family. It's like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.

Tom Waits

#24. I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Vivienne Westwood