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.
ROBERTO BOLANOIf you’re going to say what you want to say, you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Reading is more important than writing.
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don’t realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don’t realize that’s a lie.
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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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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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I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.
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One should read Borges more.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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 kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don’t have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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