Juan Goytisolo Quotes

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Juan Goytisolo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: 1931

Topics

TruthClarityMy OwnMoreOwnHold

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

John Bright

SchoolYearOldFirstYearsNine

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

John Dewey

ManWorldMysteryLivesMan Lives

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

Andrew Breitbart

LegalMediaAbortionDesireSay

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

John M. McHugh

DayAmericaNationMemorial DayPay

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

Alveda King

RaceHumanHuman RaceOnlySeparate

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Stephen Merchant

FunnyCarWifeMeNew CarSaying

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

Steve Nash

SchoolHockeyVegasYouCardsPlay

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

Ronnie Milsap

GuitarInformationPlayViolinPiano

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

Lisa Lutz

InfluenceFeelWhoLikeWriterAny

I'm all about owning your life.

Diamond Dallas Page

LifeOwningYourAbout

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Douglas Coupland

AloneLonelyFeelingPriceNothing

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Christine Baranski

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