Every hundred feet the world changes.
ROBERTO BOLANOFor a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
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The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Reading 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.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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