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For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.
— Roberto Bolano
One of the inconveniences of stealing books - especially for a novice like myself - is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.
— Roberto Bolano
... where Halder and Hans usually arrived first and had something to eat, perhaps sausage with a bit of sauerkraut.
— Roberto Bolano
Absolute beauty,
That which contains all the world's majesty and misery
And which is only visible to those who love. — Roberto Bolano
That which contains all the world's majesty and misery
And which is only visible to those who love. — Roberto Bolano
Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.
— Roberto Bolano
And then the storm of shit begins.
— Roberto Bolano
There are silences made just for us.
— Roberto Bolano
People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.
— Roberto Bolano
Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery.
— Roberto Bolano
I think of all those who believed in a Latin American paradise and died in a Latin American hell.
— Roberto Bolano
According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy
— Roberto Bolano
There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.
— Roberto Bolano
Reading is more important than writing.
— Roberto Bolano
He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.
— Roberto Bolano
Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.
— Roberto Bolano
Which is to say, boys, that I saw our struggles and dreams all tangled up in the same failure, and that failure was called joy.
— Roberto Bolano
I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.
— Roberto Bolano
These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.
— Roberto Bolano
This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it's incomplete, because stories like this don't have an ending.
— Roberto Bolano
Dust and literature have always gone hand in hand.
— Roberto Bolano
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.
— Roberto Bolano
I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.
— Roberto Bolano
I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
— Roberto Bolano
There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.
— Roberto Bolano
To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich
— Roberto Bolano
68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.
— Roberto Bolano
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
— Roberto Bolano
All horrors are dulled by routine.
— Roberto Bolano
Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.
— Roberto Bolano
You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.
— Roberto Bolano
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
— Roberto Bolano
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain
— Roberto Bolano
One day I'll die of cancer.
— Roberto Bolano
Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.
— Roberto Bolano
Her silence wasn't unpleasant, not did it imply resentment or sadness. It was transparent, not dense. It took up almost no space.
— Roberto Bolano
Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
— Roberto Bolano
The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club.
— Roberto Bolano
Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve
on the windshields of cars parked along
the Boardwalk. But you can't lose yourself. — Roberto Bolano
on the windshields of cars parked along
the Boardwalk. But you can't lose yourself. — Roberto Bolano
Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.
— Roberto Bolano
Every hundred feet the world changes
— Roberto Bolano
What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible.
— Roberto Bolano
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
— Roberto Bolano
Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary.
— Roberto Bolano
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom!
— Roberto Bolano
I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.
— Roberto Bolano
There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.
— Roberto Bolano
I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.
— Roberto Bolano
One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.
— Roberto Bolano
We interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
— Roberto Bolano
Her laughter is like a sedative. Then everything falls apart and reassembles itself.
— Robert Bolano
I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors who fight like brave men.
— Roberto Bolano
We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
— Roberto Bolano
The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
— Roberto Bolano
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
— Roberto Bolano
Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.
"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman — Roberto Bolano
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.
"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman — Roberto Bolano
Images,wounds. That is all he can see. And the images are dissolving little by little, like the setting sun, leaving only the wounds.
— Roberto Bolano
They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him ...
— Roberto Bolano
And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures
Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies. — Roberto Bolano
Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies. — Roberto Bolano
Reality is an AIDS-riddled whore.
— Roberto Bolano
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
— Roberto Bolano
I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.
— Roberto Bolano
Life, or the specter of life, is constantly challenging us for acts we've never committed. And sometimes for acts we never even thought of committing.
— Roberto Bolano
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
— Roberto Bolano
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
— Roberto Bolano
Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.
— Roberto Bolano
It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable.
— Roberto Bolano
With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.
— Roberto Bolano
Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own.
— Roberto Bolano
Life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.
— Roberto Bolano
Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.
— Roberto Bolano
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
— Roberto Bolano
Nothing is ever behind us.
— Roberto Bolano
Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.
— Roberto Bolano
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it.
— Roberto Bolano
And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.
— Roberto Bolano
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
— Roberto Bolano
Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
— Roberto Bolano
Only poetry isn't shit.
— Roberto Bolano
Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.
— Roberto Bolano
Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.
— Roberto Bolano
A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it, said Espinoza.
— Roberto Bolano
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
— Roberto Bolano
Mrs Dorothea's typewriter was like a heart, a giant heart beating in the middle of the fog and chaos.
— Roberto Bolano
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
— Roberto Bolano
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
— Roberto Bolano
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
— Roberto Bolano
Who was the first human being to look out a window?
— Roberto Bolano
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...
— Roberto Bolano
Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.
— Roberto Bolano