Reinaldo Quotes & Sayings

And what about those [writers' workshop] critiques, by the way? How valuable are they? Not very, in my experience, sorry. A lot of them are maddeningly vague. I love the feeling of Peter's story, someone may say. It had something ... a sense of I don't know ... there's a loving kind of you know ... I can't exactly describe it ...
It seems to occur to few of the attendees that if you have a feeling you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class. — Stephen King

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received - hatred. The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won. — Ayn Rand

My sexual activity was all with animals. First there were the hens, then the goats and the sows, and after I had grown up some more, the mares. — Reinaldo Arenas

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty. — Reinaldo Arenas

These, to be sure, were farfetched hopes, hopes born of despair, but hope is, after all, mostly for the desperate. — Reinaldo Arenas

Cuba will be free. I already am. — Reinaldo Arenas

If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives. — Douglas Adams

Like a lightning bug ... Like a lightning bug? ... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them. — Reinaldo Arenas

All this had already given us an inkling of what the new regime was about. There was still some hope, however. There is always some hope, especially for cowards. I was one of them, one of those cowardly or hopeful young men who still thought the government had something to offer. — Reinaldo Arenas

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living — Reinaldo Arenas

Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent. — Reinaldo Arenas

Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself. — Bryant McGill

Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them. — Reinaldo Arenas

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right! — Xavier Dolan

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things. — Reinaldo Ramos Suassuna

Being a fugitive living in the woods at the time, I had to write before it got dark. Now darkness was approaching again, only more insidiously. — Reinaldo Arenas

nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely. — Catherine Clark

The icy precepts of respect. — William Shakespeare

For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself. — Mike White

Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life ... — Reinaldo Arenas

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness. — Reinaldo Arenas

We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world. — Pope Francis

To discover a city is in itself a unique event, but when we have the privilege of sharing it with friends most dear to us, it becomes a once-in-a-lifetime experience. — Reinaldo Arenas

When I saw you on the stairs before, I'd forgotten how beautiful you are,' he whispered against her skin.

'Spotty, not beautiful,' she corrected gently, running her finger along his crooked nose. 'Now you, you're beautiful.'

'I even missed your inferiority complex.' Max smiled and shifted against her.

'Not being inferior. It's a point of fact. I'm covered in zits,' Neve said and she didn't know why she felt the need to share that with Max but then she was glad that she had because he was kissing each one of the angry red bumps along her forehead and chin and cheeks, even though a few of them were starting to suppurate. 'Don't do that, it's completely unhygienic. Kiss my mouth instead. — Sarra Manning

You can't belittle a person in one breath and then expect them to grow self-respect and self-reliance with the next. — Tim Greaton