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Jose Emilio Pacheco quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.”
-- Jose Emilio Pacheco

Source : Jose Emilio Pacheco (1987). “Battles in the Desert & Other Stories”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

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“The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every novel is an historical novel....”
-- Jose Emilio Pacheco

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“The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'The signs of a hypocrite are three: 1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. 2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise). 3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it).'”
“Clean your finger before you point at my spots.”
“But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance.”
“We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.”
“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
“Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.”
“I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

Jose Emilio Pacheco quotes

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