José Baroja: Frases en inglés (página 4)

“…we transform the sublime into an onion to remain unread.”

“…resignation is like the rain in Mexico City, sometimes sad, arbitrary and inopportune.”

“The resignation it looks like rain and that explains why the rain can bring resignation.”

“We are just cogs and nuts of a few stupid people in power.”

“In democracy, wishing bad for an incoming government is like buying a gun, buying the bullets, loading it and wishing to be killed with it: sovereign dogmatic stupidity.”

“We longed to be in the middle of some neophyte gaze of some library entity, of someone rediscovering paper.”

“Without money there is no lasting imagination in this city!”

“If we focus only on making money, people's knowledge will be reduced until we become experts in our subject, but ignorant about human beings.”

“We know well that there is poverty in Latin America, beyond the beauty of our nations.”

“We cannot be naive: the literature book will not solve poverty by itself”

“I never feel like a text is completely finished. Over and over again I reread it, preferably out loud, until a certain tiredness leads me to send it to the editor, who will decide whether it is published or not.”

“For me, the important thing is still the people.”

“…sometimes I feel like I betray the writer when I try to teach literature.”

“I think of the northern country, the United States, where they are specialists, very good at what they do, but sometimes, many times, they have no memory of the things that have happened, because they are so interested in raising money that the past is blurred and give meaning to ignorance on the basis of consumption.”

“I believe that academics do not flow naturally with this world, since, many times, the Academy, from those all-knowing egos, which are not lacking, turns the literary into a mere object lacking spirit.”

“Current school education in the United States is so bad that the only thing they got in 2025 was a bad Trump.”

“That apartment was the only property he truly owned—his own as much as a rental can be.”

“Probably, the eccentricities of those who visited the establishment meant nothing to him, especially if they were accompanied by a generous tip.”

“Overcome by that mix of cowardice and curiosity typical of 1980s horror movies, where we all knew the protagonists shouldn’t go that way, he knew he shouldn’t look—but he did.”