Juan Goytisolo Quotes

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

Juan Goytisolo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

Jennifer Grant

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Now, we love our auto industry. But if we had worked harder on diversifying this economy long ago, then if one of the legs of the stool starts to get wobbly, at least you've got three other legs to stand on.

Jennifer Granholm

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When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

John Fredriksen

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You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

John Green

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The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed.

John Philip Sousa

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Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible.

Stephanie Laurens

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When I started training, I just started running every day, which you shouldn't do. I learned that lesson the hard way by getting a stress fracture.

Sophia Bush

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A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Steven Weber

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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

Tori Amos

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If I'd never gone out and done more than one restaurant, my food wouldn't be as good as it is today. I've learned a lot from people who work for me.

Michael Mina

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Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

Joichi Ito

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To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.

Chris Pratt

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