Quotes from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“hasta lo inesperado acaba en costumbre cuando se ha aprendido a soportar.”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“... mi maligna manera de entender el mundo me ayudaba a reirme por lo bajo...”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“...y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante.”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“Nada era difícil una vez decidido, un tren nocturno, un primer barco, otro barco viejo y sucio, la escala en Rynos, la negociación interminable con el capitán de la falúa, la noche en el puente, pegado a las estrellas, el sabor de anís y del carnero, el amanecer entre las islas.”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“La verdad que no me importa si no entiendo a las mujeres. Lo único que vale la pena es que lo quieran a uno. Si están nerviosas, si se hacen problemas por cualquier macana, bueno nena, ya está, deme un beso y se acabó. (La señorita Cora)”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“...la isla lo invadía y lo gozaba con una tal intimidad que no era capaz de pensar o elegir. (La isla a mediodía)”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“Todo es cadena, trampa; enderezándose con una violencia amenazante que el público aplaude mientras el reciario retrocede un paso por primera vez, Marco elige el único camino, la confusión y el sudor y el olor a sangre, la muerte frente a él que hay que aplastar; alguien lo piensa por él detrás de la máscara sonriente, alguien que lo ha deseado por sobre el cuerpo de un tracio agonizante. «El veneno», se dice Irene, «alguna vez encontraré el veneno, pero ahora acéptale la copa de vino, sé la más fuerte, espera tu hora».”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

“Tendríamos que ser como Luis, no ya seguirlo, sino ser como él, dejar atrás inapelablemente el odio y la venganza, mirar al enemigo como lo mira Luis, con una implacable magnamidad que tantas veces ha suscitado en mi memoria (pero esto, ¿cómo decírselo a nadie?) una imagen de pantocrátor, un juez que empieza por ser el acusado y el testigo y que no juzga, que simplemente separa las tierras de las aguas para que al fin, alguna vez, nazca una patria de hombres en un amanecer tembloroso, a orillas de un tiempo más limpio.”
― Julio Cortázar, quote from Todos los fuegos el fuego

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I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help.

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