In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
ROBERTO BOLANOFor 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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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Reading is more important than writing.
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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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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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Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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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’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.
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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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The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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