"You have your wonderful memories,” people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember."
— Blue Lights, Joan Didion
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"Pero una cosa es cierta: no me atrevo a juzgarte. Sé que cuando uno ve las cosas desde afuera, cuando uno no se siente complicado en ellas, es muy fácil proclamar qué es lo malo y qué es lo bueno. Pero cuando uno está metido hasta el pescuezo en el problema (y yo he estado muchas veces así), las cosas cambian, la intensidad es otra, aparecen hondas convicciones, inevitables sacrificios y renunciamientos que pueden parecer inexplicables para el que sólo observa."
— La Tregua, Mario Benedetti.
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"The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
— Ernest Hemingway (via ceedling)
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