Frases de José Baroja

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“… Ele percebe os dois muito mais “caninos” do que antes, digamos, com mais coração, como se um pouco do seu jeito de ser tivesse passado para eles; e eles já eram bons humanos.”

“Em breve os acidentes, os apagões, as hipotermias, as exigências de iluminação pública e muitos delitos esconderão os desaparecimentos, as conspirações, as mortes, a violência doméstica, as corrupções e um longo etc.”

“Depois daquele “amém”, Evaristo descobriu as faces de aprovação e medo de seu público, então sabia que já as tinha em mãos.”

“O medo reaparece todos os dias, enquanto toma banho, enquanto assiste televisão, mesmo quando apenas toma café.”

“Acho que a literatura deveria sacudir, e não se submeter ao governo da época.”

“Juan e Perro no fundo sabem que esses ruídos persistirão enquanto houver injustiça nesta terra investida por aquele pequeno deus dominical que alguns têm.”

“…com o tempo ele perceberia que quanto mais alto ele estava, menos perigo corria e mais controlava a multidão sempre pronta.”

“O pensamento crítico acaba domesticado pelo ruído do partidarismo político e religioso, porque nestas terras duvidar se torna traição e pensar um ato suspeito.”

“…the stories already published acquire, over the years, a different value than they had at their genesis: whether for better or for worse.”

“Latin American government decisions, in general terms, discourage the development of the arts, turning artists into true martyrs of a cause, creating a vicious cycle in which ordinary people fail to notice the importance of cultural development, focusing on money as the axis of their lives.”

“He still felt love for someone who had plainly and simply decided to forget him.”

“Probably those once accompanied walks had turned out to be such an intense, though brief, experience that, beyond time, his subconscious continued to long for a presence that was no longer there.”

“The beauty of art is in our imperfection.”

“As if already destined for the seventh circle, a shudder stops him from heading toward the unknown, toward the beautifully fatal.”

“At times, he yearns for the few pockets of darkness that remain on this night so illuminated by that cursed moon, by the despicable stars, by the cursed vehicles, by the hateful city.”

“It must certainly be considered true that once a work leaves our pen, it no longer belongs to us.”

“Can someone suffering from hunger or abuse really be encouraged to read a book?”

“He still blamed himself for having believed someone who, without a doubt, lied better than he did.”

“Although he still continued to go out walking alone, it was also true that with every outing, in each of them, he used to feel something strange and dark accumulating within him.”

“Having accepted this, there was nothing left but to adapt to the new conditions, a task that cost him a world or perhaps two.”

“Undoubtedly, he feared that smile”

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”

“I must say that in Chile, the supremacy of the Market as the all-powerful governing body has made the development of the cultural field even more difficult than in Mexico.”

“Just a moment ago, he was certainly contemplating a shadow on the ground, and now he was the shadow contemplating himself.”

“School is not a daycare center.”

“Proud to be a "damn South American" and not a "suck-up" to the United States.”

“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”

“Good literature should disturb the status quo, not preach.”

“Does literature change social reality? Perhaps not. But it reveals it, brings it into the conversation—which is no small thing. It puts it in tension with reality itself. It strips it of its masks. It takes away the official discourse, or at least makes it squirm.”

“Latin America’s right-wing has no shame in throwing itself at the highest bidder — their morals shift to match whoever’s holding the purse strings.”

“Literature must avoid propaganda or moralism if it truly wants to be critical and open.”

“Urban movement and noise help me speak poetically about the social world.”

“Walking with open senses reveals stories in the smallest everyday details.”

“A shadow on a wall or a stray dog sleeping in the same corner can say more than statistics.”

“Sometimes what screams the loudest in a city is what makes no sound.”

“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

“From the margins, one can speak with irony, tenderness, and rage.”