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• When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

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  Eye, Greatness, Tragedy

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.189, University of Chicago Press

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• All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Trying, Impossible, Persist

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• Por extraño que pueda parecer, ninguna cantidad de aprendizaje puede curar la estupidez, y la educación formal la fortalece positivamente.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Stupid, Silly, May

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• Ahora tenemos toda una cultura basada en la suposición de que la gente no sabe nada y por eso se le puede decir cualquier cosa.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  People, Culture, Assumption

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• La dictadura es un sermón constante que te enseña que tus sentimientos, tus pensamientos y tus deseos no tienen importancia, que no eres nadie y que debes vivir como te digan otras personas que desean y piensan por ti.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Sentimientos

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

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  Work, Dangerous Ideas, People

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• La guerra contra Vietnam no es más que la manifestación más espantosa de lo que yo llamaría provincialismo imperial, que aflige a toda la cultura estadounidense: consciente sólo de su propia historia, insensible a todo lo que no forma parte de la atmósfera local.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  War, America, Atmosphere

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.197, University of Chicago Press

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• Los hombres poderosos, en particular, sufren del delirio de que los seres humanos no tienen memoria. Me atrevería a decir que el rasgo distintivo de los hombres poderosos es la certeza psicótica de que la gente olvida los actos de infamia tan fácilmente como el nacimiento de sus padres.

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  Memories, Powerful, Men

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• Como todos los esclavos asalariados, tenía que cargar con dos cruces: la de las personas para las que trabajaba y la de las personas con las que trabajaba.

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  Two, People, Wages

  Stephen Vizinczey (1990). “An Innocent Millionaire”, p.123, University of Chicago Press

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• The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

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  Inspirational, Health, Ignorance

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

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  Lying, Law, Facts

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• Thou shalt not let a day pass without rereading something great.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Greatness, Rereading

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• Los expertos en arte se oponen indefectiblemente al arte por la sencilla razón de que les interesa el arte, pero al arte no le interesa el arte. Al arte le interesa la vida.

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  Art, Simple, Experts

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• Siempre que oigas la palabra "inevitable", ¡cuidado! Un enemigo de la humanidad se ha identificado.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Creative, Humanity, Enemy

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• Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

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  Consistency, Want, Philosopher

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• ¿Es posible que no esté solo al creer que en la disputa entre Galileo y la Iglesia, la Iglesia tenía razón y el centro del universo del hombre es la Tierra?

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Arte, Creer, Hombres

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Libro, Escritura, Personaje

  Stephen Vizinczey “Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)”, stephenvizinczey.com

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• Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

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  Fire, Play, Fingers

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• To be great is to assume great concerns.

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  Assuming, Concern

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• You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

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  Novelists, Vote, Your Favorite

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• Consistency is a virtue for trains.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Consistency, Virtue, Train

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Book, Safety, Imagination

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Real, Character, Names

  Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.198, University of Chicago Press

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