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• We've poured our poisons into the world as though it were a bottomless pit.. and we go on gobbling them up. It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.

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  Children, Responsibility, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.80, Bantam

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• No deberías tener que conformarte con conejos si lo que quieres son ciervos

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  Rabbits, Want, Deer

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.224, Bantam

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• Llevas una década enamorado de alguien que apenas sabe que estás vivo. Lo has hecho todo, lo has intentado todo para hacerle ver que eres una persona valiosa, estimable, y que tu amor vale algo. Entonces, un día abres el periódico y echas un vistazo a la columna de anuncios personales, y allí ves que tu amado ha puesto un anuncio... buscando a alguien que merezca la pena para amar y ser amado.

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  Love, Dream, One Day

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• La mayoría de los escritores principiantes -y yo era igual- son como chefs que intentan cocinar grandes platos que ellos mismos nunca han probado. ¿Cómo puedes hacer una bullabesa estupenda -o incluso adecuada- si nunca la has probado? Si no entiendes por qué la gente lee novelas de misterio, románticas, literarias, de suspense o lo que sea, es imposible que escribas una que alguien quiera publicar. Este es el significado de la conocida expresión "Escribe lo que sabes".

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  Writing, Expression, People

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• We are all captives of a story.

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  Stories, Captives

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• Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

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  Money, Investing, Littles

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• [T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

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  Enemy, Stories, World

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.75, Bantam

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• The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

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  Gente, Mundo, Hechos

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• May the forests be with you and with your children.

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  Children, May, Forests

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• During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day--as many as 200--every day

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  Race, People, Culture

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.”, p.169, Steerforth

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• Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

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  Education, School, Prison

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• The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

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  Way, Sometimes, Obvious

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• If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.

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  World, Made, Damn

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.61, Bantam

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• A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, "Get a boat!

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  Sight, Sea, Gathering

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

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  Secret, Library, Facts

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

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  Hombres, Dos, Para Siempre

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• If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

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  Confused, Ishmael, Ifs

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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• Nunca sabes realmente cómo vas a manejar un problema hasta que realmente lo tienes.

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  Wisdom, Problem, Handle

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• Las mentiras son como los somníferos. Sólo debes usarlas cuando sea absolutamente necesario. Lo estropean todo si las conviertes en un hábito.

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  Lying, Sleep, Pills

  Daniel Quinn (2011). “The Holy”, p.258, Steerforth

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• El mundo no está hecho para una sola especie.

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  World, Made, Species

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• De hecho, en el conjunto de su cultura no existe un impulso significativo hacia el control de la población mundial. Lo que hay que ver es que nunca habrá tal impulso mientras sigas representando una historia que dice que los dioses hicieron el mundo para el hombre. Mientras sigas representando esa historia, la Madre Cultura exigirá una mayor producción de alimentos hoy y prometerá el control de la población mañana.

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  Mother, Men, Long

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.137, Bantam

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• We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

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  School, Kids, Needs

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.158, Bantam

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• Si la Cultura Madre tuviera que hacer un recuento de la historia de la humanidad utilizando estos términos, sería algo así: Los Leavers fueron el primer capítulo de la historia de la humanidad, un capítulo largo y sin incidentes. Su capítulo de la historia humana terminó hace unos diez mil años con el nacimiento de la agricultura en Oriente Próximo. Este acontecimiento marcó el comienzo del capítulo dos, el capítulo de los Tomadores. Es cierto que aún quedan Leavers en el mundo, pero son anacrónicos, fósiles, gente que vive en el pasado, gente que no se da cuenta de que su capítulo de la historia de la humanidad ha terminado. '

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  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

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  Men, Gone, Gorillas

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “My Ishmael”, p.7, Bantam

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• Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

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  Civilization, Errors, Trials

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.110, Bantam

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