One should read Borges more.
ROBERTO BOLANOThe sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.
More Roberto Bolano Quotes
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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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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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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.
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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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Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.
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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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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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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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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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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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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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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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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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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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