José Baroja Quotes
born 1983 Chile
José Baroja (born Valdivia, September 4th, 1983) is a Chilean writer, academic and editor.
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In the end, finding the Truth will always be tiring in a world full of appearances.
For a writer, life must be the focus that death illuminates daily.
Literature is a political act, not driven by utility, but by the essence of being human.
A society is defined not only by the image it projects to the world, but also by the lives it refuses to abandon.
Telling stories from the margins is a symbolic act of justice.
When everything must be measured, thinking becomes suspicious.
That's the writer's game: everything is about us.
Literary art feeds on the fragility of life.
Truth does not justify gratuitous cruelty.
The danger is that a moment may come when we forget that school existed to think about what no business can afford to ask.
Who today asks your poem where the country is going?
The closest thing to purgatory is a government agency, only the first does not exist and the second is very real.
The short story is [...] a coup de théâtre, aimed directly at the reader.
It's payday, reason enough for customers to cram every space in the venue looking for a beer. Today there is money ergo there is drink. Bibere ergosum.
I think that living only from writing is a privilege, in economic terms, that only some writers have achieved and to which, probably, all authors aspire: a difficult goal that is not impossible.
No one said this would be easy (...) Writing is not. Do not forget that the pen is the tool, yes, but art must be born from you, from your readings...
In my words, the story is a short drink, but capable of startling you for hours, something like a little shot of tequila in the middle of a game that we have voluntarily joined.
Why walk with half measures, animals know much more than people, above all because they feel more freely than most of these and, therefore, as Kafka says, they are possessors of all the knowledge about this life. They are just too humble to show it off.
It is often said that children do not read. Well, I'd say that if adults don't start reading, it's not fair to accuse little ones of not reading. They must see us with a book in our hands.
Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.