They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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One should read Borges more.
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I’ll tell you, my friends: it’s all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.
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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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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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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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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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