Lisa Alther Citas

• Ese es el riesgo que corres si cambias: que a la gente con la que has estado no le guste el nuevo tú. Pero vendrán otras personas a las que sí.

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  Change, People, Risk

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.228, Open Road Media

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• Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

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  Inspiración, Tiempo, Uso

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.304, Open Road Media

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• Cualquier madre podría realizar con facilidad el trabajo de varios controladores aéreos.

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  Divertido, Día de la Madre, Mamá

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

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  Inspirational, Inspiration

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Bedrock”, p.248, Open Road Media

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• What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

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  Inspirational, Rooms, Furniture

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.260, Open Road Media

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• Una serpiente siempre será una serpiente, aunque le pongas una cadena en el cuello e intentes hacerla caminar erguida.

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  Essence, Snakes, Trying

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.412, Open Road Media

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• El hombre que no tiene vida interior es esclavo de su entorno, como el barómetro es el obediente siervo del aire.

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  Men, Air, Life Is

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• The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

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  Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.255, Open Road Media

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• Las exigencias del amor romántico son difíciles de satisfacer en el asiento trasero de un Dodge Dart.

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  Romantic Love, Requirements, Dodge

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• If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

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  Food, Vegetables, Improvement

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• If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

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  Moving, Leaving, Mourn

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• Los franceses se comerían todo lo que no les dejara atrás.

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  France, Outrun

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

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  Vegetables, Adults, Dessert

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• La depresión era un estado muy activo en realidad. Aunque a un observador le pareciese que estabas inmovilizado, tu mente estaba en un frenesí de parálisis. Eras incapaz de funcionar, pero te despreciabas activamente por ello.

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  Depression, Mind, States

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.301, Open Road Media

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• El organismo humano dispone de una cantidad limitada de energía. Si desvía gran parte de ella hacia un solo canal, puede esperar que los demás se colapsen o se atrofien. Si derrochas tus energías vitales en tu vida emocional, como has estado haciendo, prepárate para la bancarrota física y mental, por así decirlo.

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  Emotional, Energy, Collapse

  Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media

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• successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

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  Successful, Rolling, Drink

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Bedrock”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• Escribí durante doce años y recogí 250 rechazos antes de que me publicaran nada de ficción, así que supongo que el refuerzo externo no es tan importante para mí.

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  Writing, Years, Rejection

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• Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

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  Attachment, People, Dying

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.431, Open Road Media

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• It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.

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  Years, Rejection, Firsts

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• One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

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  Children, Parenting, Issues

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.362, Open Road Media

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