Estela Portillo Trambley quotes

“the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.”
-- Estela Portillo Trambley

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“The smell of rain is rich with life.”
-- Estela Portillo Trambley

Source : Estela Portillo Trambley (1975). “Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings”, Tqs Publications

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“Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.”
-- Estela Portillo Trambley

Source : Estela Portillo Trambley (1975). “Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings”, Tqs Publications

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“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”

“Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.”

Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”

“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”

“Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.”

“How long does getting thin take?”

“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”

“Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin