Paulo Coelho Quotes
Using your car as a weapon and impenetrable armor.
Coelho, Paulo. Veronika Decides to Die. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa, HarperCollins, 1999.
The Americans were at the bottom of the hill and the Spanish were dug in at the top. They were able to pick the Americans off one by one. Roosevelt was planning on a frontal charge of his Rough Riders and Buffalo Soldiers he was commanding but his fellow officer’s men were in front of them. The officers had no orders to charge the top of the hill and the other officer would not order his men to charge. Led by Roosevelt, his men went through the other troops and charged the hill taking it in the famous Charge Up San Juan Hill (actually Kettle Hill).
Nixon was a very aggressive campaigner, with a great flair for smearing opponents. Kennedy had been an intellectual, Ivy League gentlemen type and his brother, his campaign manager, wanted JFK to get down in the mud with Nixon. He was more assertive than usual and didn’t back down, but he did not go for the low blows that had been readied for him.
Paulo Coelho de Souza is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, best known for his novel The Alchemist. In 2014, he uploaded his personal papers online to create a virtual Paulo Coelho Foundation.
