Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
ROBERTO BOLANOI’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.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we’re nothing.
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One should read Borges more.
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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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Reading is more important than writing.
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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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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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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.
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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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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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