30 phrases by Rubem Fonseca to discover the work of the award-winning writer

Mothers forgive their children, children do not forgive their mothers.

For the beautiful changes, the knowledge changes, the intelligence changes, the measure changes. But the desire is unalterable.

There are people who don’t give in to passion, their apathy leads them to choose a routine life, where they vegetate like “pineapples in a greenhouse”, as my father used to say. As for me, what keeps me alive is the imminent risk of passion and its attendants, love, hate, joy, mercy.

I read the newspapers to find out what they are eating, drinking and doing. I want to live long enough to have time to kill them all.

I wrote 30 books. All full of obscene words. We writers cannot discriminate words. It makes no sense for a writer to say, ‘I can’t wear this.’ Unless you write a children’s book. Every word has to be used.

The person wants to be, for that he also has to think. That is, when born, in addition to defecating and eating and walking, the human being also thinks. And thinking makes one see; she doesn’t see things as they are, but as she would like them to be.

A thief is considered a little more dangerous than an artist.

When the pain is too great, the suffering is silent.

When you don’t have money it’s good to have muscles and hate.

Sin is healthier and more joyful than virtue. Those who trade vice for churlishness become ugly, nasty old men.

In a separation, the one who doesn’t love is the one who says the affectionate things.

Success always bothers the ambitious mediocre, the incapable dreamers, the failures in general.

Writing is constantly making decisions.

When mixed, the salivas acquire an ineffable taste, comparable only to mythological nectar. An enzymatic mystery, like others in our body.

Writing was the most agonizing of all the struggles I faced.

My pride has no arrogance, no ostentation… Only self-esteem!

The most creative thing man can do is eat. I have great respect for gluttony. Eating is vital – a truism sometimes overlooked. Art is hunger.

I had a lot of ideas in my head, and it got in my way. The best lecturers are those of a single idea. The best teachers, the ones who know little.

Man is a solitary animal, an unhappy animal, only death can fix us.

Fiction literature is not finished, what is ending is the reader.

Some run away from love and others seek it with greed, but in the end what remains, in all, is the same thing, an unbearable feeling of emptiness.

Rich people like to sleep late just because they know the scum have to go to bed early to work in the morning.

It wasn’t the pain that made me give in, I don’t care about pain, I’m a stoic.

I stand in front of the television to increase my hatred. When my anger is subsiding and I lose the will to collect what I am owed, I sit in front of the television and before long my hatred returns.

In today’s cruel and selfish world it’s a surprise to find a man as generous as you.

Coherence is a vegetable trait that I fortunately don’t have.

It has been said that the achievement of glory is a process that begins with a destructive impulse and ends with the attainment of an avenging triumph.

All people who travel enjoy this feeling of walking through the streets of a city that is not the one they live in, with no rush, no time to return home.