Tom Rachman Quotes

• Nuestro peor miedo no es el final de la vida, sino el final de los recuerdos.

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  Memories, End Of Life, Ends

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• You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

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  Silly, Birth, Nonsense

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• People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

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  People, Turns, Products

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• Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

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  Complicado

  Tom Rachman (2010). “The Imperfectionists: A Novel”, p.260, Dial Press

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• En mi anterior carrera como periodista, me encantaba escribir necrológicas y, al mismo tiempo, temía llamar por teléfono a los familiares para obtener los datos necesarios. Pero, para mi sorpresa y gran alivio, a menudo querían hablar: querían que sus seres queridos recién fallecidos quedaran registrados en letra impresa.

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  Writing, Past, Careers

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• Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

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  Editors, Laughing, Hypocrisy

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• Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

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  Book, Reading, Meditation

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• The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

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  Training, Fiction, Hours

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• Una defensa común entre los aficionados a las necrológicas como yo es que la necrológica no trata de la muerte en absoluto. Trata de la vida. Esto es cierto, ya que un artículo sobre la condición de la muerte sería, en el mejor de los casos, una lectura monótona.

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  Reading, Defense, Common

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• Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas, encyclopedias: love of God was not behind them, nor love of life. But the love of man to be worshiped by man.

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  Love Life, Ambition, Men

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• Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

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  Remember, Forget, Overrated

  Tom Rachman (2014). “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers: A Novel”, p.237, Dial Press

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• We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

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  Memories, Illusion, End Of Life

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• Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.

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  Fighting, Swimming, Pages

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• Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

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  Art, Spring, Hard Work

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