Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
ROBERTO BOLANOReading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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.
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One should read Borges more.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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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.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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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.
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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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