Tomas Eloy Martinez quotes

Tomas Eloy Martinez quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.”
-- Tomas Eloy Martinez

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“What we want is clothing we think we can fly in. That's why I opened the show with flying dresses.”
“The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.”
“I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.”
“She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.”
“Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”
“What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.”
“It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.”
“Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”
“The doctor of the future will be oneself.”
“To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history....”

Source : Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr

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