“When you're a kid, the world can be bounded in a nutshell. In geographical terms, a child's universe is a space that comprises home, school and—possibly—the neighbourhood where your cousins or your grandparents live. In my case, the universe sat… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“I remember that one Holy Week, the magazine I got every Thursday, Anteojito , came with a free poster depicting the Stations of the Cross. I burned the poster and flushed the ashes down the toilet to dispose of the evidence. The idea that I was supposed to pin this graphic depiction of torture and death on my wall seemed… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share
“Auch wenn wir das Meer vor vierhundert Millionen Jahren (nach meinem Kalender) verlassen haben, das Meer hat uns nicht verlassen. Es ist immer noch… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“I like to believe that we are more alike in our positive experiences than in our negative ones that what binds us is stronger… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works for a little while, but in the… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty glass on the kitchen counter, an open toothpaste tube, unmade beds, their sheets stained with urine; he leaves grandfather clocks, cigarette burns in the ashtrays, comics that have been scrawled on and books borrowed from the… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share
“I know it doesn't sound logical but that's the way it is ' said papá. 'There are people who try to control the people… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“I never saw a sky like the sky over Dorrego - so vast, so black, with stars in an infinite array of size and brilliance. Maybe it seemed vast because the Earth didn’t get in the way: the countryside around Dorrego is flat, there are no big cities to blot out the stars with their own clouds of gas, their… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share
“Time is weird. That much is obvious. Sometimes I think everything happens at once, which is anything but obvious and even weirder. I feel sorry for people who brag about 'living in the moment'; they're like people who come into the cinema after the film has started or people who drink Diet Coke—they're missing out on the best part. I… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share
“If life was a movie and someone asked you what kind of a movie it was the best answer would be: it's a movie… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“When you're a kid, the world can be bounded in a nutshell. In geographical terms, a child's universe is a space that comprises home,… — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
“... a monologue defines its author as reliably as his fingerprints.” — Marcelo Figueras Copy Share Image
