Only in chaos are we conceivable.
ROBERTO BOLANOWe’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
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Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.
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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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You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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The secret story is the one we’ll never know, although we’re living it from day to day, thinking we’re alive, thinking we’ve got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn’t matter.
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Nothing is ever behind us.
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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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Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.
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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 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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In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
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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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