in gaining i lose.
yet when i reconsider,
the grotesquely beautiful truth remains.
I am His and in HIM aolne
am i me with reference to the cross.
In the suffering of my Savior, i am saved,
That's all there is to know.
Memoria de mis putas tristes (Quotation)
April 25, 2009“I have not done anything except write, but I don’t possess the vocations or talent of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life. In plain language, I am the end of the line, without merit or brilliance, who have nothing to leave his descendants if not for the events I am prepared to recount, to the best of my ability, in these memories of my great love.”
“I discovered that my obsession for having each right thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, ech word at the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time.”
“Inspiration gives no warnings.”
—–Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
