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> [“Julian curses his fixation: Ultimately, he should have his time writing down the conversations that floated up from the bar beneath the apartment he shared with Karla. That would have been much better. Instead of spotlighting a dead image, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/julian-curses-his-fixation-ultimately-he-should-have-his-time-writing/)

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## More by Alejandro Zambra

> [The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/the-stories-on-standardized-tests-don-t-have-one-author-therefore/)

[Alejandro Zambra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-zambra/)

> [“...she feels a desire to go to the bridge, alone, to throw something over the rail, into the current—a photograph, a hat, anything; she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/she-feels-a-desire-to-go-to-the-bridge-alone-to-throw-something-over/)

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> [“She knows that very soon Ernesto won't come back. She imagines herself disconcerted, then furious, and finally invaded by a decisive calm. It's all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/she-knows-that-very-soon-ernesto-won-t-come-back-she-imagines-herself/)

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> [“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged to our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/the-novel-belongs-to-our-parents-i-thought-then-i-think-now-that-s/)

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> [Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/everything-has-been-said-and-everything-has-been-done-but-you-still/)

[Alejandro Zambra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-zambra/)

> [“Julián didn’t want to regain his love, since he had stopped loving her a long time ago. He had stopped loving her one second…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/juli-n-didn-t-want-to-regain-his-love-since-he-had-stopped-loving-her/)

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> [Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/publishing-my-book-is-like-giving-it-away-at-first-you-start-talking/)

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> [We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/we-rely-too-much-on-the-people-we-share-our-lives-with-we-hold-them/)

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> [I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/i-remember-thinking-without-pride-of-self-pity-that-i-was-not-rich-or/)

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> [“What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/what-greater-happiness-than-to-know-that-move-exists-that-i-can-watch/)

[Alejandro Zambra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-zambra/)

> [I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/i-ve-been-writing-most-of-my-life-it-s-just-something-i-do/)

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> [As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/as-a-child-all-you-see-is-that-adults-are-not-playing-adults-are-not/)

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> [“Parents abandon their children. Children abandon their parents. Parents protect or forsake, but they always forsake. Children stay or go but they always go.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/parents-abandon-their-children-children-abandon-their-parents-parents/)

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> [“There are some families in which, at 9:00 at night, the father starts to hit the wine and the mother the ironing, far away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/there-are-some-families-in-which-at-9-00-at-night-the-father-starts/)

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> [“She lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the plot, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-zambra/she-lay-on-the-bed-to-read-a-novel-she-wanted-to-forget-that-bitter/)

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