In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats
ROBERTO BOLANOAs 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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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.
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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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Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.
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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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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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When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.
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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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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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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.
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They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.
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There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
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Literature + Illness = Illness.
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If life is misery, why do we endure it?
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.
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