We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
ROBERTO BOLANOwe interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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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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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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