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The Truce
MARIO BENEDETTI
"One thing is clear: if, on the one hand, extreme attitudes provoke enthusiasm, and drag others along, are signs of vigor, on the other hand, balanced attitudes are generally uncomfortable, sometimes unpleasant, and almost never seem heroic. In general, it takes a lot of courage (a very special kind of courage) to keep your balance, but you can't help making it look like cowardice to others."
"In only six months and twenty-eight days I'll be in a position to retire. I've been doing this daily calculation of the time remaining for at least the past five years. Do I need leisure so much? I tell myself no, that it's not leisure that I need but the right to work at what I love."
MARIO BENEDETTI
"It is evident that God has granted me a truce. At first, I resisted believing that this could be happiness. I resisted with all my strength, then I gave up and believed. But it wasn't happiness, it was just a truce."
MARIO BENEDETTI
"In the early days, I didn't talk much about Isabel, just because it was painful for me. Now, I don't talk about her much either, because I'm afraid of making a mistake, of talking about someone else who had nothing to do with my wife."
MARIO BENEDETTI
"He was a strange drunk, with a special light in his eyes. He took my arm and said, almost leaning against me: 'Do you know what happens to him? That you're not going anywhere.'
MARIO BENEDETTI
"because 'died' is the word, 'died' is the collapse of life, 'died' is from within, it brings the true breath of pain, 'died' is despair, frigid and total nothingness, the pure and simple abyss, the abyss."
MARIO BENEDETTI
"So I began: 'Do you know that you are to blame for one of the most important crises in my life?' She asked, 'Economically?' and she was still laughing. I replied, 'No, sentimentally,' and she became serious."
MARIO BENEDETTI
"Sometimes I think what I'll do when my whole life is Sunday. Who knows?"