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Alejandro Zambra Quotes: As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.
         

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.


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You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.



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If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.



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I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.



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I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.



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Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.



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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.



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