Originál: (en) Rushdie claims that tyrants and scribblers are natural antagonists, but I think that’s too simple; it lets writers off pretty easy. Dictators, in my opinion, just know competition when they see it. Same with writers. Like, after all, recognizes like.
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Zdroj: [Díaz, Juno, 2008, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Faber and Faber, 97, angličtina, 978-0-571-23973-3]
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“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“It's never the changes we want that change everything.”
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“She's sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“… sometimes a start is all we ever get.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
“Nothing more exhilarating… than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.”
Zdroj: This Is How You Lose Her
Zdroj: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao