The best phrases by Tomás Eloy Martínez to send on Whatsapp

Tomas Eloy Martinez He was born on July 16, 1934 in Tucumán. He was renowned Writer and journalist Argentinian, author of classics such as The Romance of Perón and Santa Evita.

He had a very particular writing style, he used imaginary resources to tell true stories. Among his most famous chronicles are “The Passion According to Trelew”, “Place of Death” and “The Argentine Dream or Requiem for a Lost Country”, among others.

Shortly before the start of the last Argentine military dictatorship, he went into exile in Venezuela, where he founded and edited his newspaper “El Diario de Caracas”.

He worked for the magazine Primera Plana and the newspapers La Nación, La opinion, El País de España and The New York Times Syndicate.

The best phrases by Tomás Eloy Martínez to send on Whatsapp

• “We are, therefore, the books we have read. Or we are, otherwise, the void that the absence of books has opened in our lives.”
• “Typed love letters are worth less than others.”
• “The past always comes and goes without concern for what it leaves behind.”
• “Feelings are free, but men rarely dare to obey that freedom.”
• “In the sky of harmonies all fixities were movements and all happiness was born from perdition. Only those who were lost were found.”
• “Time is an incessant agony of the present disintegrating into the past.”

Quotes by Tomás Eloy Martínez about journalism

• “Journalism is not an act of narcissism, but of service to others.”
• “Ask, investigate, know, doubt, confirm a hundred times before reporting: capital verbs of journalism.”
• “The reader is not distracted by fireworks or loud denunciations, he is respected with accurate information.”
• “Being a journalist means putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, understanding them. And, sometimes, even being someone else.”