Reading is more important than writing.
ROBERTO BOLANOFor her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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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’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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One should read Borges more.
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We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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If you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
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