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Soldados de Salamina QUOTES

1 " He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day now Barcelona will fall. For the strategists, for the politicians, for the historians, it is all clear: we have lost the war. But in human terms, I am not so sure. Perhaps we have won. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

2 " Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

3 " If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

4 " öldüğünde kaybolup gitmemek için,kimin hatırlayışına sarılacaktı? "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

5 " ayrıca gerçek bir yazar asla yazarlığı bırakmaz,yazmasa da bırakmaz. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

6 " comportamiento de un héroe hay casi siempre algo ciego, irracional, instintivo, algo que está en su naturaleza y a lo que no puede escapar. Además, se puede ser una persona decente durante toda una vida, pero no se puede ser sublime sin interrupción, y por eso el héroe sólo lo es excepcionalmente, en un momento o, a lo sumo, en una temporada de locura o inspiración. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

7 " Dos-a-Dos González, "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

8 " los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede; "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

9 " los hombres no piden perdón: hacen lo que hacen y dicen lo que dicen, y luego se aguantan. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

10 " —Como una película de los hermanos Marx, sólo que con muertos. Aquello fue un desbarajuste fabuloso. —Sopló un poco el té, bebió un sorbo y volvió a dejar la taza sobre el plato—. Mira, te voy a decir la verdad. Durante años me cagué cada vez que pude en Allende, pensaba que la culpa de todo era suya, por no entregarnos las armas. Ahora me cago en mí por haber dicho eso de Allende. Joder, el cabrón pensaba en nosotros como si fuéramos sus hijos, ¿entiendes? No quería que nos mataran. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

11 " I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking
across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

12 " Nobody remembers them, you know ? Nobody. Nobody remebers why they died, why they didnt have a wife and children
and a sun lit room either, nobody, least of all people for whom they fought. There is no and there never will be some pathetic street
in one pathetic village of a shitty country that is named after any of them."
Miralles stopped talking, he took out his handkerchief, wiped the tears, blew his nose, he did so without shame, as if he was not ashamed of crying in public,
as Homers warriors of old did it, as any soldier of Salamis would do. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

13 " I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and
punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

14 " A menudo el énfasis en la lealtad delata al traidor. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

15 " Vatana gelince, o şeydir, her şeydir, o ne olduğu bilinmeyen şeydir ya da basitçe söylemek gerekirse, rezillik, dalaverecilik yapmanın mazeretidir. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

16 " Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an expression of utter boredom; then he said:
'Like a Marx Brothers' movie, but with corpses. Unimaginable pandemonium. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

17 " Kahramanlar, ancak öldüklerinde ya da öldürüldüklerinde kahraman olurlar. Gerçek kahramanlar savaşta doğarlar, savaşta ölürler. Yaşayan kahraman yoktur, delikanlı. Bütün kahramanlar ölüdür. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

18 " Recuerdo el primer día que la llevé a mi casa. Mientras yo forcejeaba con la cerradura del portal dijo: —Menuda mierda de ciudad. Le pregunté por qué. —Mira —dijo y, con una mueca de asco infinito, señaló una placa que anunciaba: «Avinguda Lluís Pericot. Prehistoriador»—. Podían haberle puesto a la calle el nombre de alguien que por lo menos hubiera terminado la carrera, ¿no? "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

19 " Since nothing annoys a writer who doesn't write as much as being asked what he's writing "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina

20 " que en algún momento me despertaré y estaré en la lona del ring, asesinado por un oriental muy gordo que sonríe igual que la muerte. "

― Javier Cercas , Soldados de Salamina