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Roberto Bolano quotes: One of the inconveniences of stealing books - especially for a novice like myself - is that sometimes you have to take what you can get. 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 quotes: All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them. All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Absolute beauty,That which contains all the world's majesty and miseryAnd which is only visible to those who love. Absolute beauty,
That which contains all the world's majesty and misery
And which is only visible to those who love.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us. Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.
Roberto Bolano quotes: And then the storm of shit begins. And then the storm of shit begins.
Roberto Bolano quotes: There are silences made just for us. There are silences made just for us.
Roberto Bolano quotes: People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth. People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.
Roberto Bolano quotes: When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing. When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.
Roberto Bolano quotes: What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say? What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say?
Roberto Bolano quotes: Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery. Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery.
Roberto Bolano quotes: According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy
Roberto Bolano quotes: Reading is more important than writing. Reading is more important than writing.
Roberto Bolano quotes: He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown. He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach. I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Philip K. Dick diedand now we only need what is strictly necessary. Philip K. Dick died
and now we only need
what is strictly necessary.
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Dust and literature have always gone hand in hand. Dust and literature have always gone hand in hand.
Roberto Bolano quotes: As you're well aware, this is a macho country full of faggots. The history of Mexico wouldn't make sense otherwise. As you're well aware, this is a macho country full of faggots. The history of Mexico wouldn't make sense otherwise.
Roberto Bolano quotes: I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way. 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 quotes: I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering ... Dizzied, thrilled, depressed by remembering ...
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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 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 quotes: 68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share. 68. By then all poets will live in artistic communities calls jails or asylums. 69. Our imaginary home, the home we share.
Roberto Bolano quotes: The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.
Roberto Bolano quotes: A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy. A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.
Roberto Bolano quotes: All horrors are dulled by routine. All horrors are dulled by routine.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance. Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.
Roberto Bolano quotes: You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement. 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 quotes: Posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats ... Posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats ...
Roberto Bolano quotes: One day I'll die of cancer. One day I'll die of cancer.
Roberto Bolano quotes: It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour? It's absurd to see an enchanted princess in every girl who walks by. What do you think you are, a troubadour?
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club. 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 quotes: If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore? Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?
Roberto Bolano quotes: The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight. The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary. Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary.
Roberto Bolano quotes: I hope you die, I said. I hope I die, he said, and then he said: I know I'm going to die. I hope you die, I said. I hope I die, he said, and then he said: I know I'm going to die.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
Roberto Bolano quotes: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Roberto Bolano quotes: You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
Roberto Bolano quotes: I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg. I am being followed, I realized, with a blend of certitude and astonishment, like a soldier discovering that gangrene has taken hold of his leg.
Roberto Bolano quotes: What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible. What cannot be cannot be, besides witch, it's impossible.
Roberto Bolano quotes: There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night. There's a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses, it's miserable and it comes on at night.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work. Silence hovers in the yards, leaving no pages with writing on them, that thing we'll later call the work.
Roberto Bolano quotes: No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them. No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
Roberto Bolano quotes: One should read Borges more. One should read Borges more.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark. Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Reading is never a waste of time. Reading is never a waste of time.
Roberto Bolano quotes: I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano."No, I was dreaming," said Castillo. I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano.
"No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.
Roberto Bolano quotes: They fucked until she was nothing more than a tremor in his arms. They fucked until she was nothing more than a tremor in his arms.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it. Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.
Roberto Bolano quotes: We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we? We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
Roberto Bolano quotes: When it left, death didn't even close our eyes. When it left, death didn't even close our eyes.
Roberto Bolano quotes: That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio. Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio.
Roberto Bolano quotes: The novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile. The novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.
Roberto Bolano quotes: When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow. When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
Roberto Bolano quotes: I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at. I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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 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 quotes: For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ... For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...
Roberto Bolano quotes: Life is mysterious as well as vulgar. Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face. Among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.
Roberto Bolano quotes: They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him ... 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 quotes: And quick strokes of other less intimate adventuresFlashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies. And quick strokes of other less intimate adventures
Flashed in her wounded eyes like fireflies.
Roberto Bolano quotes: In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen. Literature isn't innocent. I've known that since I was fifteen.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Images,wounds. That is all he can see. And the images are dissolving little by little, like the setting sun, leaving only the wounds. 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 quotes: Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer. Exile is courage. True exile is the true measure of each writer.
Roberto Bolano quotes: It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable. It's good to love. It's bad to be impressionable.
Roberto Bolano quotes: With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility. With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own. Madness really is contagious, and friends are a blessing, especially when you're on your own.
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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. 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 quotes: In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats
Roberto Bolano quotes: Nothing is ever behind us. Nothing is ever behind us.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it. Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it.
Roberto Bolano quotes: One is prepared for friendship, not for friends. One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Her eyes like the idealgeography book:maps of pure nightmare."The Ghost of Edna Lieberman Her eyes like the ideal
geography book:
maps of pure nightmare.

"The Ghost of Edna Lieberman
Roberto Bolano quotes: The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower. The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
Roberto Bolano quotes: I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors who fight like brave men. I have hope in children. In children and warriors. In children who fuck like children and warriors who fight like brave men.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore. Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. 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 quotes: An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom! An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom!
Roberto Bolano quotes: Mrs Dorothea's typewriter was like a heart, a giant heart beating in the middle of the fog and chaos. Mrs Dorothea's typewriter was like a heart, a giant heart beating in the middle of the fog and chaos.
Roberto Bolano quotes: We interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. We interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
Roberto Bolano quotes: And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time. And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Poetry and prison have always been neighbors. Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight. Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Only poetry isn't shit. Only poetry isn't shit.
Roberto Bolano quotes: Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari. Then they talked about freedom and evil, about the highways of freedom where evil is like a Ferrari.
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it, said Espinoza. A bastard may have no imagination and then do one imaginative thing when you least expect it, said Espinoza.
Roberto Bolano quotes: 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. 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.

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