Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: June 13, 1917 - April 26, 2005

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ChangeGoodManMemoryNothingCome

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

Joanne Kelly

ChildStoryWantSeeCharacters

Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.

Jessica White

ChangeFashionBlackProblemTalk

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

Michael Cunningham

GodWarWritingSearchEarlySaid

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

Steve Blank

SuccessFailureConfidentHelpWill

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

Stephen R. George

WorkTimeWritingImpossibleStory

Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought.

Steven Pinker

BrainThoughtBehaviorGenesAffect

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Sofia Vergara

LifeConfidentWholeEverybody

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

Russell M. Nelson

WorkYouKnowImportantWillBecome

Luckily for me, snowboarding doesn't really feel like work unless I'm actually doing stuff that's, like, work-ish, but when I'm just snowboarding, I'm having so much fun.

Chloe Kim

WorkFunMeFeelDoingSnowboarding

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Boris Pasternak

TruthPowerMenIgnoreMythAnxious

'Sunspring,' the first known screenplay written by an AI, was produced recently. It is awesome. Awesomely awful. But it's worth watching all ten minutes of it to get a taste of the gap between a great screenplay and something an AI can currently produce.

Brad Feld

GreatWorthFirstWatchingAwesome

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Brigham Young

DayTomorrowBetterYouSayNever

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