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Juan Goytisolo has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to…
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But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result…
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In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings,…
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In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that…
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And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that…
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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the…
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And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the…
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his…
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
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My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual…
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As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from…
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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became…
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But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room…
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I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and…
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I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled…
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Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of…
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While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and…
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Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
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I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on…
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The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women --…
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