"How emigration is actually lived - well, this……" — Daniel Alarcon
"How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival."
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15 Quotes by Daniel Alarcon
Daniel Alarcon has 15 quotes on this site.
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Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane…
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It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of…
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write…
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard…
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright…
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to…
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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to…
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Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to…
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Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror…
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Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity…
— David M. Raup
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Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the…
— Ray Davies
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually…
— Brian Jacques
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When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being…
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She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that…
— Douglas Coupland
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A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what…
— Tom Robbins
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My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century.…
— Roger Bannister
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