Once again, Arturo Pérez-Reverte consumed all the airtime of El Hormiguero in his visit this Monday, as he had already done in his previous interviews with Pablo Motos.
The writer discussed with the presenter a multitude of topics.He also commented on the most important parts of the novel he presented, The Island of the Sleeping Woman.
The most outstanding phrases of the guest at El Hormiguero were:
– “Spaniards react very well to crises”.
– “The political side has made it clear that they are playing chess with human lives.”
– “There has been criminal incompetence on the part of the Generalitat and the Government of Spain.”
– “Tragedies bring out the best in the human condition.”
– “One of the best things we have in Spain are our young people”.
– “A body, the Ministry of Disasters, should be created, made up of professionals outside politics.”
– “The misfortune of this country is called the Spanish political class, and this goes from the extreme right to the extreme left.”
– “A pissed off Spaniard is very dangerous, historically we have seen it.”
– “If they don’t take Pedro Sánchez out of the disaster zone, they would have killed him, I really liked, however, the attitude of the king.”
– “The queen who has learned a lot and was very good.”
– “The king, with that serenity and that courage, was super, he stood up for himself with admirable dignity.”
– “We have some remarkable kings and miserable politicians paying the consequences of their miserable behavior.”
– “I think the fact that the kings were accompanied by Mazón and Sánchez was a mistake, they contaminated everything.”
– “Mazón should resign, without a doubt, and Sánchez too, but he is never going to do it.”
– “We citizens are paying and will pay the price of this bunch of irresponsible and scoundrels called political class.”
– “Tomorrow there are elections in Spain and I am sure that the same people will vote for the same people and Sánchez will be president again”.
– “When life touches you seriously, anyone can transform into someone dangerous.”
– “The Mediterranean for me is my homeland, with age, I feel more and more like moving around it literarily and physically.”
– “The sea is a magnificent way to keep me in a good shape that age is taking away from me”.
– “The smell of war I would recognize anywhere, it’s a burnt plastic smell that sticks in your head.”
– “Sanchez will get out of this as he gets out of all of them. He has us by the measure as Franco or Ferdinand VII did in his time.”
– “Sanchez is a gambler, a cheat, he is fleecing them all.. His political shamelessness, his unbridled ambition make him a very fascinating character with an extraordinary political institute”.
– “He is demolishing the state in order to be able to maintain himself, you have to know how to do that, not just anyone can, he has done something very difficult, to build a real wall, either you are with him or you are a fascist.”
– “He is very good at what he does tactically, I wish he was also a good person.”
– “Errejón is just one more, he’s secondary, he’s just one more comparsa of something much more serious.”
– “Pablo Iglesias is the representation of a failureHe has put an end to the hope of a whole generation of young and not so young people”.
– “Alberto Núñez Feijóo seems to me a good person, I have nothing on a personal level, but he is part of a mediocre and incompetent party, as is the PP”.
– “In this country you don’t vote for, but against and Vox has found a free field”.
– “You have to be careful with that party, because, those who show their faces, are brutes and louts, simpletons, but behind them there are thinking and manipulative heads that we do not know and are those who really pull the strings, generate hoaxes and are very dangerous.”
– “That ability of the young and the delinquent to find the exact word to define something are extraordinary contributions to the language.”