Anthony Doerr Citas

• Abre los ojos y ve lo que puedas con ellos antes de que se cierren para siempre.

  Anthony Doerr

  Inspirational, Eye, Forever

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sueño, Libro, Otoño

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• You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

  Anthony Doerr

  Childhood, Waiting, Here And There

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• Decir que una persona es una persona feliz o una persona infeliz es ridículo. Somos mil tipos de personas diferentes cada hora.

  Anthony Doerr

  Unhappy Person, People, Different

  Anthony Doerr (2011). “Memory Wall: Stories”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• A real diamond is never perfect.

  Anthony Doerr

  Real, Perfect, Diamond

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.

  Anthony Doerr

  Arte, Recuerdos, Libro

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• Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Hands, Forever, Might

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• Sal de casa, deja el país, deja lo familiar. Sólo entonces la experiencia rutinaria -comprar pan, comer verduras, incluso saludar- se convierte de nuevo en algo nuevo.

  Anthony Doerr

  Country, Home, Vegetables

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

  Anthony Doerr

  Alive, Want, Dies

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• Mi preferencia es por la prosa con más silencio en ella, el lenguaje que contiene más bolsas de extrañeza.

  Anthony Doerr

  Silence, Pockets, Language

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• I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.

  Anthony Doerr

  Running, Thinking, Lucky

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• So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

  Anthony Doerr

  Life, Children, Light

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

  Anthony Doerr

  Language, Inadequate

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

  Anthony Doerr

  Night, Storm, World

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• Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

  Anthony Doerr

  Baby, People, Done

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.

  Anthony Doerr

  Narrative Structure, Miracle, Chocolate

  Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Todos venimos a la existencia como una sola célula, más pequeña que una mota de polvo. Mucho más pequeños. Divide. Multiplicar. Sumar y restar. La materia cambia de manos, los átomos entran y salen, las moléculas pivotan, las proteínas se cosen, las mitocondrias envían sus dictados oxidativos; empezamos como un enjambre eléctrico microscópico. Los pulmones, el cerebro, el corazón. Cuarenta semanas más tarde, seis billones de células son aplastadas por el canal de parto de nuestra madre y aullamos. Entonces el mundo se nos echa encima.

  Anthony Doerr

  Mother, Heart, Cells

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

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• Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

  Anthony Doerr

  Trying, Firsts

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.482, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

  Anthony Doerr

  Dream, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented that research with imagination; research might give you detail, but imagination supplies the direction in which to apply all that detail.

  Anthony Doerr

  Book, Europe, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.

  Anthony Doerr

  Lying, Airplane, Technology

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

  Anthony Doerr

  Jobs, Writing, Opportunity

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Skills, Long

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

  Anthony Doerr

  Memories, Past, Stories

  Anthony Doerr (2010). “About Grace: A Novel”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.

  Anthony Doerr

  Writing, Joy, Challenges

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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