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.”

“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”

“What society refuses to see is what most strongly defines it.”

“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”

“The Chilean silence is one of repression; the Mexican, of resignation.”

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

“One could say I understand the city as an entity that shapes those who inhabit it, even though, in the process, it can become an anthropophagous being, merciless—especially toward the less privileged.”

“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.”

“The city is not just a setting, but also a character with its own voice.”

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

“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

“Poets are here to disturb the status quo.”

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“Urban life becomes a space where beauty and decay, crowd and solitude, justice and injustice coexist.”

“Trump supporters are just now realizing that Superman is the Immigrant.”

“His life had been a sum of half-hearted decisions.”

“Today, going to schools is essential, since, just as doctors have a duty to protect life, writers must spread literature, because literature is in itself, along with art in general, the greatest form of freedom we still have.”

“In a certain way, I think that literature is capable of effectively uncovering and revealing many more “layers” of the framework that composes and hides our society and ourselves. That is, it is capable of bringing us closer to something that, for lack of a better word, I will call “Truth,” and that applies to Art itself, more than to History, more than to Anthropology, or more than to any other branch of the Social Sciences.”

“When politicians take over public transportation, public health, public education—that is, live like ordinary people and not like rich people—everything will be better.”

“In a democracy, leaders must resemble people, not monarchs.”

“While it's true that, recently, Ramiro Gutiérrez had shown a tendency toward tearful and painful literature, he had never felt the same way, for example, as the pathetic Werther or the gallant Don Quixote.”

“Beware of nuns and priests, they will make you doubt your faith.”

“Gaza is a wound that will never stop bleeding.”

“The right side of history is with Palestine.”

“The fantastic is both protection and an analytical tool.”

“The fable is an aesthetic scalpel that opens the social flesh without turning it into a museum object.”

“Irony without co-responsibility is mere ornament; with co-responsibility, it is a critical instrument.”

“Belonging is not a fixed point but a becoming.”

“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”