One should read Borges more.
ROBERTO BOLANOOne should read Borges more.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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Reading is more important than writing.
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
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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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No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.
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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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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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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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we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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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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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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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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The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.
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