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Nothing is ever behind us.

Roberto Bolano

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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Book Control Desire Myself People Reading Writing
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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Blood Literature Product Strange
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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Assume Lose Sea Water
Literature + Illness = Illness.
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Illness Literature
Nothing is ever behind us.
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Pace Right Time
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Construction Knowledge Pleasure Reading Verbal
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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Curiosity End Fun Honesty Voice
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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Approach Edge Friendship Love Nerve
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
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Climate Commitment Himself Poet Suicide
Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.
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Contamination Game Poetry
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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Friendship People Prayer Reading Thinking View Walk
I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Education Man Oneself Prison Subtle
When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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Myself Return Traveling
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night

Nothing is ever behind us.

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