ESTAÇÕES DIFERENTES

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear."

Stephen King - "Different Seasons"


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quinta-feira, março 17, 2005

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."




Todos nós, desde garotos até à idade adulta, temos heróis, personagens que nos inspiram e que se alguma forma nos levam a querer ser melhores. Nunca nos conseguimos colocar na pele desses seres porque a insubstancialidade da sua rectidão e coragem parecem intangíveis. Mas tendemos a chegar lá. Da melhor forma que pudermos.
Embora tenha mais alguns, imaginários ou não, Harper Lee mostrou-me uma das mais pungentes e tocantes noções de heroísmo. Ainda por cima na pessoa imaginária que saiu da sua caneta e lhe deu o Pullitzer em 1961.
Nas suas palavras:

"But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal - there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States of the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal." - Atticus Finch, o dito herói de ficção, na defesa a Tom Robinson.

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