Speaker for the Dead
“Realmente creo que el arte cambia el paisaje del mundo.”
Fuente: Rueda de prensa de 28 de febrero de 2006 en la Casa Blanca de Washinton, Estados Unidos. Transcripción de la web del Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos http://usinfo.state.gov/mena/Archive/2006/Feb/28-758365.html.
Original: «You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive».
Fuente: Nafisi, Azar. The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books. Editorial Penguin, 2014. ISBN 9780698170339. https://books.google.es/books?id=8jNBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&dq=Penguin,+2014+ISBN%090698170334,+9780698170339&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTm-P08tngAhWM34UKHWFwAVoQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=You%20think%20your%20pain%20and%20your%20heartbreak%20are%20unprecedented%20in%20the%20history%20&f=false
Original: «The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world».
Fuente: [Cobbe] (1867), pp. 15-16.
“Soy una persona realmente anticomercial, y no exijo nada a cambio.”
La Rebelión de Atlas
“Discurrió bien quien dijo que el mejor libro del mundo es el mundo mismo.”
Fuente: Críticon, III, 4.
