Giannina Braschi Quotes

#1. Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

Giannina Braschi

#2. You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.

Juliet Marillier

#3. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.

Giannina Braschi

#4. Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

Giannina Braschi

#5. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Giannina Braschi

#6. Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

P.C. Cast

#7. I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Giannina Braschi

#8. I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Giannina Braschi

#9. Solitude goes wherever you go, traveler.

Giannina Braschi

#10. Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Giannina Braschi

#11. Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

Giannina Braschi

#12. It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Giannina Braschi

#13. The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

C. Wright Mills

#14. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Giannina Braschi

#15. Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Giannina Braschi

#16. We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.

Giannina Braschi

#17. Computers are like horses; they can sense fear and will act based on that.

Adam C. Engst

#18. A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

Giannina Braschi

#19. squidgiest fraction

Liane Moriarty

#20. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Giannina Braschi

#21. What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

Giannina Braschi

#22. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart has one:yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.

Lemony Snicket