I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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One should read Borges more.
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