Good Morning!
Today is the birthday of Maxim Gorky (1838 – 1936) who said:
“Happiness always looks small
while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big
and precious it is.”
and
“Keep reading books, but
remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for
yourself.”
and
“You must write for children
the same way you write for adults, only better.”
It is also the birthday of Nelson Algren (1909 – 1981) who said:
“Yet once you've come to be
part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman
with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so
real.”
and
“You don't write a novel out
of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich.
A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential
to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”
Birthday greetings to Bohumil Hrabal (1914 – 1997) who said:
“No book worth its salt is
meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your
underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.”
and
“I can be by myself because
I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a
harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a
liking to the likes of me.”
A very happy birthday to Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928 - ) who said:
“A great deal of world
politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be
waged intelligently.”
And feliz cumpleaños to Mario Vargas Llosa (1936 - ) who said:
“Memory is a snare, pure and
simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
and
“We
would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more
conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the
engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest
against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is
missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that
life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of
the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live
somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our
disposal.”
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