Mario Escobar
Mario Escobar Velásquez was born on November 25, 1928, in circumstances that the record places, unusually, at the River Thames, though he lived and worked as a Colombian citizen, writing in the Spanish language that shaped his literary voice throughout his life.
The facts available about his career are spare, yet they establish the essential contours of a man whose identity was firmly rooted in Colombia. A citizen of that country and a writer of Spanish, Escobar Velásquez moved through his decades of work within a linguistic and cultural tradition that carries its own distinct weight in Latin American letters. The specific titles he produced and the precise arc of his output remain outside what the available record confirms, and so they are better left unspoken here than assembled from inference.
Mario Escobar Velásquez died on April 17, 2007, in Medellín, the Colombian city that stands as the final geographic anchor of his life.
Quotes by Mario Escobar
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Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things tht had always been invisible take on their true value.
Once people being to hate, they stop asking questions. Stop using their brains. They just look down on other people.
Nightmarish monsters tried to trap them that restless night, but their innocent minds escaped and flew off to the world of dreams, where everything is possible and nothing lasts forever.
Most people value freedom and life, but for me, it’s all worthless without my family. Existing without them would be a kind of slavery. Suffering with them, I’ll be with them forever.
To Moses, stars were the lights God had created so that night would not swallow everything up.
A light stream emanated from the engine’s wheels, and the train gave a final whistle as if the huge frame of metal and wood were sighing in grief over the souls it had to separate.
Children of the Stars is a tribute to the power of everyday men and women to change reality.
This book is just that: the capacity we have as human beings to transform the world in each generation, when the balances are zeroed out and, for better or worse, everything begins again.