Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.
This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
Hay que tomar la muerte como si fuera aspirina.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Never mistake motion for action.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.
The echoes of beauty you’ve seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.
We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Don’t you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you’re not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you’ve lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.