On Writing: Federico Jeanmaire

No esperar más a que llegaran, cuando se les ocurriera, ni las ideas ni las palabras con las que escribir esas ideas. Aprender a buscarlas. A pesar de ellas. Y también a pelearlas y a discutirlas y a escucharlas. Sobre todas las cosas, me parece, aprender a escucharlas con los oídos bien abiertos. Ser escritor.

Federico Jeanmaire
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My Favorite Words: Who's on First?

Goethe once remarked that he could think of only thirty-six tragic situations.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gozzi maintained that there can be
but thirty-six tragic situations. Schiller took
great pains to find more, but he was unable
to find even so many as Gozzi.

Goethe
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My Favorite Words 19: Pray Thee!

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realized God doesn’t work that way, so I stole
one and prayed for forgiveness.

Emo Philips
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My Favorite Words: Pretending

Education: That which discloses to the wise & disguises from the fool
their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce
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My Favorite Words: Stuporous

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: So much has been destroyed.
I have to cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

Adrienne Rich
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My Favorite Words: Defined

Jealousy is a passion which with eagerness seeks what causes pain.

Sigmund Freud
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My Favorite Words: The Remains of the Day

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there is no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Anthony Swofford.
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My favorite words: "The" actor

Marlon Brando's going to class to learn the Method (Acting) was like sending a tiger to jungle school.

Elaine Stitch
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