“Deus criou o homem à sua imagem. Isso provavelmente significa: o homem criou Deus à sua própria imagem.”
“Let's just start!”
Source: Discover What Makes You Tick: Understand Why You're Enjoying Life...Or Not!
“Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself with. To think of. To worry over. To be happy about. And so on.”
Source: Face to Face: A Film
“The spring evenings had grown long, and it was hard to darken the room. They sat in their separate chairs and waited for Fassbinder, their silence a respectful preparation. They had waited this way for their meetings with Truffaut, Bergman, Visconti, Renoir, Wilder, and all the other honored guests that Jonna had chosen and enthroned–the finest present she could give her friend.”
Source: Fair Play
“Lives—even the most carefully managed— are voids filled with echoes”
Source: The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made: An Indispensable Collection of Original Reviews of Box-Office Hits and Misses
“el estilo es un medio para insistir sobre algo.”
Source: Optic Nerve
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the dawn of time”), not with a banality (“Recently, scholars have been increasingly concerned with the question of…”), but with a contenful observation that provokes curiosity”
Source: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
“Aunque la mona vista de seda, mona queda.”
“He preferido ser poco inteligible antes que inexacto”
Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“(…) o tempo ensinou-lhe algumas astúcias:
"Evitar os sinônimos, que têm a desvantagem de sugerir diferenças imaginárias; evitar hispanismos, argentinismos, arcaísmos e neologismos; preferir as palavras habituais às palavras assombrosas; intercalar em um relato traços circunstanciais, exigidos agora pelo leitor; simular pequenas incertezas, já que, se a realidade é precisa, a memória não o é; narrar os fatos (isto aprendi em Kipling e nas sagas da Islândia) como se não os entendesse totalmente; lembrar que as normas anteriores não são obrigações e que o tempo se encarregará de abolilas".”
Source: Por que ler Borges