House Taken Over By Julio Cortazar Quotes

#1. If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to carry out their wishes.

Jane Goodall

#2. The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.

Amanda Coplin

#3. Papa," Alessandro said, his eyes closing. "She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.

Mark Helprin

#4. panta rei ("All things are in flux"),

Epicurus

#5. Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Isabel Allende

#6. America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.

Mike Leigh

#8. In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey.

Paulo Coelho

#9. It was the building from the drawing in my brain.
And if you don't think that's a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

James Patterson

#10. The world is full of educated derelicts

Calvin Coolidge