José Baroja: Frases en inglés (página 6)

“Although he still continued to go out walking alone, it was also true that with every outing, in each of them, he used to feel something strange and dark accumulating within him.”

“Having accepted this, there was nothing left but to adapt to the new conditions, a task that cost him a world or perhaps two.”

“Undoubtedly, he feared that smile”

“Silence has become omnipresent and seemingly infinite for many miles, even longer than your mind can remember.”

“I must say that in Chile, the supremacy of the Market as the all-powerful governing body has made the development of the cultural field even more difficult than in Mexico.”

“Just a moment ago, he was certainly contemplating a shadow on the ground, and now he was the shadow contemplating himself.”

“School is not a daycare center.”

“Proud to be a "damn South American" and not a "suck-up" to the United States.”

“Telling stories from the margins is a symbolic act of justice.”

“I have been opposed, from the beginning, to presenting ideological, political, or religious pamphleteering stances that seek to simplify the human experience into functional Manichaeism.”

“The urban allows me to explore those contradictions without falling into propagandistic or moralistic discourse; an essential matter, in my view, when it comes to literature.”

“I’m not interested in portraying the official city, the one that appears on postcards or government videos, but that other one—the one that pulses on the margins.”

“The city becomes an ideal metaphor for how I perceive human beings.”

“Urban movement and noise help me speak poetically about the social world.”

“Walking with open senses reveals stories in the smallest everyday details.”

“A shadow on a wall or a stray dog sleeping in the same corner can say more than statistics.”

“Sometimes what screams the loudest in a city is what makes no sound.”

“The mestizo dog is an intense allegory of the Latin American condition.”

“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”