Citas de Patrick deWitt

• We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

  Patrick deWitt

  Hurt, Sadness, Worry

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.33, Granta Books

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• Nuestra sangre es la misma, sólo que la utilizamos de forma diferente.

  Patrick deWitt

  Blood, Use

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.107, Granta Books

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• I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

  Patrick deWitt

  Men, Leader, Want

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.196, Granta Books

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• La mayoría de la gente está encadenada a su propio miedo y estupidez y no tiene el sentido común de mirar fríamente lo que está mal en sus vidas. La mayoría de la gente seguirá adelante, insatisfecha, pero sin intentar entender por qué, o cómo podrían cambiar las cosas a mejor, y morirán sin nada en sus corazones más que suciedad y sangre vieja y delgada -sangre débil, diluida- y sus recuerdos no valdrán una maldita cosa.

  Patrick deWitt

  Memories, Heart, Eye

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• I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

  Patrick deWitt

  Matter, Money Comes And Goes, Comes And Goes

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.212, Granta Books

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• You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

  Patrick deWitt

  Money, Giving, Behinds

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.89, Granta Books

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• The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

  Patrick deWitt

  Lonely, Spring, Insomnia

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

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• Me quedé a oscuras pensando en las dificultades de la familia, en lo locas y torcidas que pueden ser las historias de un linaje.

  Patrick deWitt

  Crazy, Dark, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books

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• ...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

  Patrick deWitt

  Sueño, Pasado, Noche

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.51, Granta Books

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• It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

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  World, Said, Hardest

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.131, Granta Books

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• Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Independence, World, Riches

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.125, Granta Books

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• I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

  Patrick deWitt

  Men, Saws, Window

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• All you will get from me is death.

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  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.100, Granta Books

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• I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

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  Corazón, Noche, Pensamiento

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.37, Granta Books

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• He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

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  Fighting, Guilt, Abet

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.40, Granta Books

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• I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

  Patrick deWitt

  Men, Drunk, Rooms

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.81, Granta Books

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• This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling of fortune; the unlucky masses hoping to skin or borrow the luck of others, or the luck of a destination. A seductive notion, and one I thought to be wary of. To me, luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Men, Roots

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• La suerte es algo que se gana o se inventa con la fuerza del carácter. Había que ganársela honradamente; no se podía engañar ni farolear para conseguirla.

  Patrick deWitt

  Character, Luck, Way

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.74, Granta Books

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• We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy travel just after a meal. There were many hardships to our type of life and we took these small comforts as they came; I found they added up to something decent enough to carry on

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  Thinking, Agreement, Silence

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.12, Granta Books

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• It is true, I thought. I am living a life.

  Patrick deWitt

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.41, Granta Books

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• Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.

  Patrick deWitt

  Rooms, Miserable

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.73, Granta Books

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• Hurried business is bad business.

  Patrick deWitt

  Malos negocios

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books

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• Devolviendo la pluma a su soporte, nos dijo: "Haré que lo destripen con esa guadaña. Lo colgaré de sus propios intestinos". Ante esta dramática exposición, no pude evitar poner los ojos en blanco. Unos intestinos no soportarían el peso de un niño, y mucho menos el de un hombre adulto.

  Patrick deWitt

  Niños, Ojos, Hombres

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.80, Granta Books

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• Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.

  Patrick deWitt

  Hermoso, Sueño, Dolor

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• I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

  Patrick deWitt

  Compliment, Unusual, Closest

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.8, Granta Books

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