Guimaraes Rosa Quotes

#1. Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

#2. The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

Charles M. Schulz

#3. I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

Bo Burnham

#4. You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

Geoffrey Canada

#5. If you give, you will be blessed.

Joel Osteen

#6. To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

Robert Bridges

#7. To be described is to be seduced. Shit. One turn of phrase. One thing noticed that she'd never noticed. It works always.

Dave Eggers

#8. The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

#9. Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa