“You mentioned that Palermo, the part of Buenos Aires where you were brought up, had been a violent place full of bohemians and bandits. There they had two names for the knife, ‘the blade’ and ‘the slicer’. The two names… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share
“You said somewhere that you would like to write in one of the Nordic languages because they have more vowels, and vowels are more serious.’ You: ‘Did I say that? But Latin languages have more vowels than Nordic ones! I think what I meant was that I would like to write in one of those ancient northern tongues which were… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share
“[A]ll gastronomic pleasure [is] a co-opted form of sexual desire. We interrupt the organic process of a plant or animal in order to eat… — Luis Fernando Veríssimo Copy Share Image
“You mentioned that Palermo, the part of Buenos Aires where you were brought up, had been a violent place full of bohemians and bandits. There they had two names for the knife, ‘the blade’ and ‘the slicer’. The two names described the same object, but ‘the blade’ was the thing itself, and ‘the slicer’ described its function. ‘The blade’ could… — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share
“It isn’t everyday that we want to see a syrupy Van Gogh or hear a piquant fugue by Bach, or make love to a… — Luis Fernando Veríssimo Copy Share Image
Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe. — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
“Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.” — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage. — Luis Fernando Verissimo Copy Share Image
![“[A]ll gastronomic pleasure [is] a co-opted form of sexual desire. We interrupt the organic process of a plant or animal in order to eat it and we exhaust our own voluptuousness, our own perverted sexual desire, in the pleasure of eating.” quote by Luis Fernando Veríssimo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/139/luis-fernando-verissimo-44133_desire_a-ll-gastronomic-pleasure-is-a-co-opted_267212.jpg)
