15 Quotes by B. Traven

Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the bridge or the Indians if you believe that the civilization you were born into is the only one that counts. Go and look around with the idea that everything you learned in school and college is wrong.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

La suya era una de las familias más pobres del pueblo, una de las más apreciadas por su honestidad y su modestia y además porque siempre son más queridas las familias pobres que las ricas.

Si un pobre hombre o una pobre mujer no podían ofrecerle sino sólo unos cuantos centavos, o un puerquito, o un gallo, gozaban exactamente de la misma atención que los ricos, a quienes en ocasiones había llegado a cobrar hasta veinte mil doblones de oro.

ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.

don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.

i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.