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Quotes from Empire of Dreams — Giannina Braschi

born 1953 Puerto Rico

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Questions don't change the truth, but they give it motion.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Empire of Dreams (1994)

Behind the word is silence, behind that silence is forgetfulness.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

Gods are condemned to live the dream of the imperishable.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

Here. Astride the top of nothingness, I suddenly receive the call of death. Who, in passing, tells me that it’s nothing. Nothing more than the absence of the word itself. Nothing more, and simply nothingness.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

I have just turned life into a proverb. I just killed it.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives. Why do you think Christ was killed? They killed him to prove that he wasn’t a god. But in killing him, they immortalized the perishable and transformed man into a god.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

My tanks were filled with gasoline and wars. I was a lead soldier. I marched against the smoke of the city....And the world closed its doors—anvils and hammers against the sleeping men—doors of the heart—cities everywhere—and litte lead soldiers.

Empire of Dreams (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Giannina Braschi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.