Camilo Moreno-Salamanca

“I am trying to make fiction by following a course that Gogol summarised like this: Give me any small everyday event and I will make it a five-act play.”

“In other words, my effort at faithfulness cannot be separated from the search for coherence, the imposition of order and meaning, even the imitation of the lack of order and meaning. Because writi

“Friendship isn’t constantly put at risk by sexual practices, by how much danger there is in the mixture of lofty emotions and the pressure of bodies to give and be given pleasure.

It’s true that today, from what I can see, sexual friendship is increasingly widespread (in Italian, I’ve sometimes heard the lighthearted neologism trombamico, or “frien

“And the skill of the writer is best displayed when what she suggests is much more than what she says…

I’m interested in the ordinary or, rather, what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary…

But I still think that those who are more or less arbitrarily given the job of telling stories shouldn’t be concerned about the serenity of individual

Familiar trends tend to be beautiful…beautiful things are usually associated with fire and water, which have been around us since the beginning of our species.

Man-made beauty has a greater variance of perception because it is not natural

Harry Potter and the futile attempt to wash your teeth the night before the dentist to not get lectured

“Men have always been jealous of that experience which is ours alone, and often dreamed—in myths, in certain rites—of forms of male pregnancy. Not only that: they immediately appropriated conception and birth metaphorically. They conceive ideas, give birth to works. And they have convinced us that since we already have the animal prerogative of mat

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski

Beauty = Permanence + Purpose

From Interintellect talk

https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Short-Introduction-Roger-Scruton/dp/0199229759

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