Onetti Juan Quotes & Sayings

Where the hell do you put the bayonet? — Chesty Puller

Are you freaking kidding me? You kissed Adrian "freakishly amazingly beautiful, broody, black sheep, I could take your clothes off without ever moving a muscle" Hebert, and he kissed you back? — Lynetta Halat

I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine. — Tony Vlachos

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up. — Miguel Syjuco

If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.

If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story. — G.S. Jennsen

(Mason) took a swig of his drink and shuddered. 'Whoa - little too strong there bartender.' He scrunched his face. 'Oh shit, I am the bartender. — Martin Fillmore Clark

I explained that often when we revealed ourselves to mortals we drove them mad - for we were unnatural beings, and yet we did not know anything about the existence of God or the Devil. In sum, we were like a religious vision without revelation. A mystic experience, but without a core of truth. — Anne Rice

I feel forever young. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play — Juan Carlos Onetti

I am not a writer except when I write. — Juan Carlos Onetti

And this is more or less all that I had left after the holidays. Nothing really; hopeless confusion, a narrative without a possible conclusion, full of doubtful meanings, belied by the very elements that I had to give it shape. I didn't know the significance of what I'd seen, I was repelled by the idea of finding out and being sure. All that counts is that I felt at peace when I finished writing, certain I had enjoyed the greatest success one can expect from this kind of task: I had accepted a challenge, and turned at least one daily defeat into a victory. — Juan Carlos Onetti

It was just my point that I saw altogether too much of the people we knew. My — Willa Cather

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that. — Marina Abramovic

Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not. — Augustine Of Hippo