Javier Cercas Quotes

#1. If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.

Javier Cercas

#2. Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium.

Javier Cercas

#3. In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

Os Guinness

#4. I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and
punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.

Javier Cercas

#5. Fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.

Javier Cercas

#6. I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you

Raven-Symone

#7. If someone breaks up, it's an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before.

Vikrmn

#8. When artists are burdened with the label of "genius," I think they lose the ability to take themselves lightly, or to create freely.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. She and I were alone in this house, the fireflies more active than our souls.

Alessandra Torre

#10. One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public.

Julius Wellhausen

#11. All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.

Javier Cercas

#12. Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future?

Aharon Katzir

#13. Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.

Martin Luther

#14. Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.

Javier Cercas

#15. I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.

Michael Parenti

#16. All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.

Javier Cercas

#17. It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.

Javier Cercas

#18. I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

Lleyton Hewitt

#19. I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.

Mike Pilavachi

#21. The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

J.M. Coetzee