Nothing is ever behind us.
ROBERTO BOLANOYou have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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I’d obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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