Reading is more important than writing.
ROBERTO BOLANODreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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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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For 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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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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