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Hot Sur QUOTES

Hot Sur QUOTES

1 " I haven’t been quite as smart about living as I have been about working. At work, everything was about precision and efficiency, while in my life everything has been about daydreaming, longing, and confusion. "

― Laura Restrepo , Hot Sur

2 " ... Me producen escalofríos los que se arrodillan y besan el suelo, los que se flajelan, los que se arrastran y se sacrifican por el Señor y veneran a sus santos y sus ángeles. "

― Laura Restrepo , Hot Sur

3 " .. Me producen escalofríos los que se arrodillan y besan el suelo, los que se flagelan, los que se arrastran y se sacrifican por el Señor y veneran a sus santos y sus ángeles. "

― Laura Restrepo , Hot Sur

4 " Vengeance is not reflective or flexible; it’s implacable and blind. It has nothing to do with justice. Whoever believes that he is enforcing justice through vengeance is just lying to himself. It is about something much more primal, more bestial. "

― Laura Restrepo , Hot Sur

5 " while the great lot of the rest of them went around dressed as if for a carnival, a grandiloquent parade of ridiculous and absurd Third Worlders. And "

― Laura Restrepo , Hot Sur