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“What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them”

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Augusto Roa Bastos was a Uruguayan novelist known for his unique literary style and profound social criticism. His works often explore the history, politics, and social issues of Uruguay and its neighboring countries. more

“There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.”

People Persons Book Humanity Individual Example Wall Universal Sacred Sentences Code Temples Epic Portal Oracles

Author:Augusto Roa Bastos

“Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.”

World Two Order Reading Danger Rage Shoulders Ideology Arrogance Confused Climbs Socialist Helpless Stem Incomplete Defenders Frantic

Author:Jose Marti

“It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.”

Speak Liberty Terrible Without You

Author:Jose Marti

“Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.”

Hatred Slavery Inevitable Aftermath

Author:Jose Marti

“Oh, what company good poets are!”

Company Poet

Author:Jose Marti

“I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.”

Important Today Mother Next Musician Swings

Author:Tori Amos

“Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.”

Actors Alive Stones Strategy

Author:Claire Danes

“As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.”

Government School Jobs Three Creating Areas Focused Spending My Time Expenses Governors Reducing Creating Jobs

Author:Jack Markell

“If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.”

Ifs Book Would Be Bounds Library Smell Leather

Author:Mark Pryor

“Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds - and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.”

People Thinking Giving Kind Different Country Type Let Me Folks Backgrounds All Kinds Senate Different Peoples Entitlement Arkansas Different Backgrounds Sense Of Entitlement

Author:Mark Pryor

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