Russell Banks frases

• Prefiero trabajar con niños cuya vida podría cambiar por completo con la lectura de un libro durante un fin de semana. Les das un libro para que lo lean, se van a casa y vuelven convertidos. Y eso es mucho más interesante y emocionante.

  Russell Banks

  Libro, Lectura, Inicio

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Pero, en realidad, fue la lectura lo que me llevó a la escritura. Y, en particular, la lectura de los clásicos americanos, como Twain, que me enseñó a una edad temprana que las vidas ordinarias de la gente corriente pueden convertirse en arte.

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  Arte, Lectura, Escritura

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• We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

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  People, Stranger, Good And Bad

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• It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best friend, a kid wanted to hang with forever. This was a boy I could travel to the seacoasts with, a boy I'd like to meet up with in foreign cities like Calcutta and London and Brazil, a boy I could trust who also had a good sense of humor and liked smoked oysters from a can and good weed and the occasional 40 ounces of malt. If I was going to be alone for the rest of my life this was the person I wanted to be alone with.

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  Weed, Kids, Boys

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• Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

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  Inspiración, Motivación, Libro

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• One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

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  Niños, Padres, Quieren

  "American Spirituality: Tony Campolo and Russell Banks". Interview with Michael Carey, www.abc.net.au. July 19, 2000.

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• Contar historias es un acto antiguo y honorable. Un papel esencial que desempeñar en la comunidad o la tribu. Es algo que yo abrazo de todo corazón y por lo que he tenido la suerte de ser recompensado.

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  Play, Community, Roles

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• The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.

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  Libro, Escritura, Perfecto

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• Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

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  Done, Care, Take Care

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• There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

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  Wonderful, Unconscious, Smarter

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• Sales al mundo, lees todo lo que puedes leer, imitas las cosas que te gustan y aprendes lo difícil que es hacerlo. Con el tiempo, aprendes tu propia visión del mundo, aprendes tu propia voz y a escucharla, y aprendes a escribir tu propia obra. Los escritores de hoy tienen tantas oportunidades como las tuvo mi generación, pero no ven los ejemplos tan claramente como nosotros.

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  Writing, Opportunity, Vision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nobody does anything for one reason.

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  Doe, Reason

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.

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  Kindness, Home, Snow

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• Sin embargo, lo que crees importa. Es todo lo que uno tiene para actuar. Y como lo que haces es lo que eres, tus acciones te definen. Si no crees que nada es verdad simplemente porque no puedes demostrar lógicamente que lo es, no harás nada. No serás nada. Acabarás pasándote la vida en una mecedora mirando al horizonte esperando una respuesta que nunca llega. Da igual que estés muerto. Es un viejo problema filosófico.

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  Philosophical, Believe, Waiting

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• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

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  Writing, Discipline, Attention

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Lo mejor de los programas de escritura es que racionalizaban el aprendizaje de un escritor.

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  Writing, Program, Apprenticeship

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• We are not buried in history, but surrounded by it. You can't avoid our behavior being shaped by it, to a considerable degree. We have this fantasy that we are free of history. This allows us not to see the circumstances, the historical circumstances of other people.

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  People, Historical, Fantasy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Si dedicas tu atención a la disciplina en tu vida te vuelves más inteligente.

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  Disciplina, Atención, Amigos

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• La lealtad es extraña, aparece cuando no la esperas y las personas que menos la merecen parecen ser las que más la reciben.

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  Lealtad, Gente, Patadas

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• Y hay gente que quiere ser escritora porque le gusta escribir. Y les importa.

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  Escritura, Personas, Cuidado

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal.

  Russell Banks

  Flower, Dark, Dumb

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

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  Luck, Lasts, Lifetime

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• One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

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  Hate, One Love, Reason

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• My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

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  Storytelling, Allegiance, Has Beens

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• Se habían ido y los echaba de menos, pero aun así era muy feliz. Durante el resto de mi vida, fuera donde fuera en este planeta y por muy asustada o confusa que estuviera, podía esperar a que oscureciera, mirar al cielo nocturno y volver a ver a mis tres amigos, y mi corazón se hinchaba de amor por ellos y me hacía fuerte y lúcida.

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  Strong, Confused, Heart

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