Luisa Valenzuela quotes

“I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.”
-- Luisa Valenzuela

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“I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.”
-- Luisa Valenzuela

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“In Victor's life, monotony and boredom had nothing to do with one another. He repeated his repertoire so often that even from miles away, Clara could follow his conversation with anyone who happened to be sitting next to him.”
-- Luisa Valenzuela

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“There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.”

“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

“Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.”

“There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.”

“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.”

Source : ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”

“I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.”

Source : Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.70, Three Rivers Press

“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”

“Big writers become a kind of shared climate.”