324 quotes by chilean authors for you to enjoy

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist. Augusto Pinochet

God Problems Everything Had Because Becoming Did Chile Communist Dedicate Actions Kept

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. Isabel Allende

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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. Isabel Allende

Heart Fate Our Determines Drives Us

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. Isabel Allende

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women. Michelle Bachelet

Women Equality Will Gender Able Only Reached Empower

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world. Sebastian Pinera

Life You Change World Tough Change The World Tougher Than

My films are like clouds: their meaning keeps changing every minute. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Clouds Every Films Changing Minute Like Meaning Keeps

In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it. Alejandro Jodorowsky

World Lot Violence Violent

I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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When I was an adolescent, I abandoned my country at 23 years to come to Paris to know Andre Breton, the 'Pope of Surrealism.' And for three years, I was there working with him being a surrealist. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I felt so alone as a boy because no one wanted to be friends with me. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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I have always thought that, of all the arts, the cinema is the most complete art. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Art Cinema Thought Complete Most Always Arts

Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies. Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not a normal person. I am living in a normal body, but my mind is not normal. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life Woman Cats Five Need

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry? Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life Man Will My Life Cried Never Cry How Am Cannot

If you are great, 'El Topo' is a great picture. If you are limited, 'El Topo' is limited. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Great You Picture Limited

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