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Reading is more important than writing.

Roberto Bolano

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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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
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Constant Mirror Pain Poverty Voice Wealth
Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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Color Dance Night
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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Body Bone Death Sorrow Yourself
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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Group Ignorance Myself Reading World
If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Endurance Life Misery
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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Himself Laughter Reading Sadness Study
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Art Decision Point Truth
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Fist Poem Recite Time
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Edible Fat Moon Night Purity
Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Myself Talk Understand
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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Arrogance Disrespect Ego Yourself
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

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