You don’t sound like a scientist, you sound like a poet.”

Rey smiled, “Can I be both?”

But you’d rather be a poet.”

Who wouldn’t?” he said.

Daniel Alarcón


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Are you a politician?
I hate politicians, he said. And, in any case, there's no such thing anymore: only sycophants and dissidents.

Daniel Alarcón


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Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

Daniel Alarcón

Tags: truth lies stories storytelling facts speaking



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Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.

Daniel Alarcón


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They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool.

Daniel Alarcón


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What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement?...
The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text.

Daniel Alarcón

Tags: war



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Nothing builds community like complaining.

Daniel Alarcón


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What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die?

Daniel Alarcón


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