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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“I have been opposed, from the beginning, to presenting ideological, political, or religious pamphleteering stances that seek to simplify the human experience into functional Manichaeism.”

“I’m not interested in portraying the official city, the one that appears on postcards or government videos, but that other one—the one that pulses on the margins.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Politicians should live like ordinary citizens.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Fiction is far more accurate than History when it comes to the human being.”

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