Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
ROBERTO BOLANOYou have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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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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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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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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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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’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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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