Literature + Illness = Illness.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
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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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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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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