No puedes esperar que existan los finales felices. Tienes que creer en ellos. Luego haz el trabajo, asume los riesgos. Mata al dragón, besa a la princesa, o a la rana, y derrota a la malvada bruja.
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Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Pero los escritores mienten, aun los más sinceros. Los menos hábiles, carentes de palabras y frase... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un... JAY ASHER Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro... JULIO CORTáZAR La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien... ANTONIO GUADARRAMA Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu... ALBERT EINSTEIN En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Creo que la idea es que cada hombre o mujer tiene que vivir su propia vida y luego decidir si la com... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no ... SUSAN SONTAG Y al final resultaba que ser soldado de la patria no era precisamente defender el suelo, las fronter... MARIO BENEDETTI Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría, cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la... PABLO NERUDA Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha... LAURA ESQUIVEL Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Ya en el escaparate de la librería localizaste la portada con el título que buscabas. Siguiendo es... ITALO CALVINO La mayoría de las personas no tienen tantos recelos ante lo sobrenatural como les gusta creer a los... STEPHEN KING A veces, lees un libro y te llena con este fervor evangélico raro, y te convences de que el mundo d... JOHN GREEN Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Los jóvenes entendemos que en el siglo 21 es inaceptable que familias enteras tengan que resignarse... RAFAEL OLIVERO Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado... HERMANN HESSE Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas... VICTOR HUGO ¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el ... BENJAMIN DISRAELI La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ... PíO BAROJA Este es un homenaje a los locos. A los inadaptados. A los rebeldes. A los alborotadores. A las ficha... WALTER ISAACSON Si escuchas la canción Asleep, y piensas en esos días en los que hace un clima precioso que te hac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY No te necesitaba, idiota. Te he elegido. Y luego tú me has elegido a mí. Y esto es como una promes... JOHN GREEN Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. No... ALDOUS HUXLEY Así se reanudó una amistad prohibida que por lo menos una vez se pareció al amor. Hablaban hasta ... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ ¿Quiere que vaya a la iglesia y me confiese? ¿Cree que los detectives nos rebajamos a hablar con s... PABLO DE SANTIS Lo bueno de ser inmortal es que no puedes beber literalmente hasta caerte muerto, como lo hacen los ... CATE TIERNAN Siempre he pensado, de hecho, que los seres humanos son 'frágiles' al amor. Sufren antes incluso de... ELISABETTA GNONE Conozco las estrellas por memorias, los ejércitos de la noche, y hay en la delantera los que nos tr... AESCHYLUS «¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués. «Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ La Lotería, con su reparto semanal de enormes premios, era el único aconteci... GEORGE ORWELL Porque nadie es tan necio que prefiera la guerra a la paz: en ésta los hijos entierran a sus padres... HERODOTUS ¡Bienaventurados los que sueñan, porque de ellos será el reino de la creación! ROGELIO SINáN Si quedaba alguna esperanza, debía estar en los proles, porque solo en esas masas... GEORGE ORWELL El libro es jardín que se puede llevar en el bolsillo, nave espacial que viaja en la mochila, arma ... BENITO TAIBO Una dictadura perfecta tendría la apariencia de una democracia,pero sería básicamente una prisió... ALDOUS HUXLEY Cuando el jardín de la memoria comienza a secarse -le había dicho Celâl una de aquellas noches-, ... ORHAN PAMUK -Yo no aspiro a la fama ni me importa la eternidad. Me conformo con dejar buen recuerdo a los que me... LUIS CARRENO Todos eran efímeros y transitorios, y a la vuelta de cien años no quedaría rastro de ellos sobre ... MIGUEL DELIBES De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha acontecido,... ARISTOTLE Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa... PAULO COELHO La verdad es como una manta que nos deja los pies fríos. Ya puede uno tirar de ella hacia sí en to... N.H. KLEINBAUM Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que... FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó Pero siento como si conociera a Rue...La veo en las flores amarillas que crecen en la Pradera junto ... SUZANNE COLLINS ¿Donde residen los recuerdos de las personas? ¿En los patrones de conexiones sinápticas del... MAKOTO SHINKAI Antes de la tragedia, cada hombre se consideraba unido inescindiblemente a los demás, en pensamient... JOSé RAFAEL HERRERA El apócrifo aviso de la columna de 'busco trabajo'-'tengo auto, puedo viajar'- puede servir como ep... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla... SáNDOR MáRAI —Pues ahí, no aquí [...] siguen morando en nidos y en «boudoirs», en cortes de justicia y en o... VIRGINIA WOOLF La noche previa fue un grito de lanzas y gemidos de flechas que enmudecían a los seguidores del pri... SERGIO OMAR MARTINEZ —Te diré a lo que es real. Real es que yo estaba en la cárcel durante el último año, quedándo... SIMONE ELKELES Soy un gato, un ser extremadamente sensible a los más sutiles cambios en la mente o el alma del mun... SōSEKI NATSUME Ella, sin duda, era la encarnación de la belleza que encontraba en la Tierra. Tenía que pasar por ... ANAGABY ARRIETA Cuando los adultos dicen: “Los adolescentes piensan que son invencibles”, con esa sonrisa maños... JOHN GREEN En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person... JOHN C. MAXWELL (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l... HERMANN HESSE Dolor y muerte. Dos palabras que podrían resumir lo que ocurrió en Hollow Hallows a finales de su ... CARLOS J. EGUREN Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu... AUDREY DRY Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Nuestra vida son los ríos que van a dar en la mar, que es el morir JORGE MANRIQUE la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa... OCTAVIO PAZ Como ve, todos tenemos en nuestro interior los elementos necesarios para producir fósforo. Es más,... LAURA ESQUIVEL Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He ido encontrando tesoros en lugares que no queria buscar. He estado escuchando sabiduría de bocas... SUZY KASSEM La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla de... CHUCK PALAHNIUK El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar... KATIE MCGARRY Al salir del velorio había movido una taza vacía frente a mí. Había dicho: «He leído su suerte... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Recuerdo que una vez le dijo a la raza que leyeran los poemas en voz alta porque la voz era la semil... TOMáS RIVERA Yo he visto estos solitarios apretujados en increíbles racimos en los andenes y en los coches del t... ARTURO USLAR PIETRI Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN –Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto... HARUKI MURAKAMI Algunas veces lees un libro, sientes un extraño afán evangelizador y estás convencido de que este... JOHN GREEN En la vida no todo es seguridad. Es ser capaces de recoger los pedazos después de que todo haya pas... SHERRILYN KENYON El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n... CONFUCIUS Hay criminales que proclaman tan campantes ‘la maté porque era mía’, así no más, como si fue... EDUARDO GALEANO Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi... HERMANN HESSE en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D... VIKTOR E. FRANKL - ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo? Lo miré. No supe qué decir. - Que la voy olvidando. EDUARDO SACHERI Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade... LAURA ESQUIVEL ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e... MARC LEVY Siempre había pensado que dejar de creer causaba una cicatriz imborrable en el lugar donde estuvo l... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Toda mi familia se crece con la presión. Es como el lema familiar, o algo así. Con la excepción d... SOPHIE KINSELLA Polly había llorado tanto que se sentía deshidratada. El llanto juvenil es una cosa y el llanto ad... LAURIE COLWIN ¿Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Es... ANTHONY DOERR La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mu... MICHEL FABER Buscás eso que llamas la armonía, pero la buscás justo ahí donde acabás de decir que no está, ... JULIO CORTáZAR La felicidad no consiste en conseguir aquello de lo que careces y anhelas sino en aprender a saber v... CARLOS J. CUEVAS Sólo mediante la información que poseemos, incorporada a nuestro organismo, sean los esquemas inna... JOSé ANTONIO MARINA
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So blit... NORA PERRY If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. NORA EPHRON Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot ... NORA EPHRON Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the w... NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters NORA EPHRON I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m... NORA EPHRON When we initially did the game, it still had lava pits, the editor looked like an ogre - stuff like ... NORA PAUL I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a goo... NORA EPHRON Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live ... NORA EPHRON When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, 'W... NORA ARNEZEDER It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever aft... NORA EPHRON My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c... NORA EPHRON The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif... NORA EPHRON When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and mad... NORA EPHRON It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared... NORA EPHRON When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy... NORA EPHRON I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all ti... NORA EPHRON Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is r... NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be. NORA EPHRON When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subcons... NORA EPHRON I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm no... NORA EPHRON I look as young as a person can look given how old I am. NORA EPHRON …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not ha... NORA EPHRON I didn't sign it," Neil said, looking up from his hands. He lifted his fingers to his face. He could... NORA SAKAVIC Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl... NORA EPHRON I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position agai... NORA EPHRON More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges. NORA JOHNSON Ninety percent of the time the very sight of you makes me want to commit murder. I think about carvi... NORA SAKAVIC Is your learning curve a horizontal line? NORA SAKAVIC This is my reassured face," Neil said, pointing up at his blank expression. NORA SAKAVIC I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't m... NORA EPHRON Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. NORA EPHRON Dale the Thug. NORA EPHRON 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and... NORA EPHRON As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date. NORA EPHRON To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of th... NORA EPHRON Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorles... NORA EPHRON I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. NORA EPHRON With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest in... NORA EPHRON You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets NORA EPHRON New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The o... NORA EPHRON There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same l... NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat NORA EPHRON It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and prim... NORA EPHRON We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ... NORA EPHRON Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t... NORA EPHRON One thing that happens because adults are uncomfortable is we use a lot of euphemisms. Those can jus... NORA GELPERIN It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever af... NORA EPHRON [A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own p... NORA EPHRON Get It Done Fast, Cost Effective and With Professional Results to Outsource Your Medical Data Entry ... SOPHIA NORA In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. NORA EPHRON Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that ev... NORA EPHRON What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would d... NORA EPHRON I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thou... NORA EPHRON When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banan... NORA EPHRON My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My... NORA EPHRON If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when ... NORA EPHRON You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the ... NORA EPHRON Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou... NORA EPHRON I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ... NORA EPHRON Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California. NORA EPHRON Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day o... NORA EPHRON I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Peri... NORA EPHRON Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths a... NORA SAKAVIC This was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil was never letting go. NORA SAKAVIC Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's... NORA SAKAVIC Now that number was gone, covered up by the jet-black image of a chess piece. Neil's knowledge of ch... NORA SAKAVIC