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Poetry is the one thing that isn’t contaminated, the one thing that isn’t part of the game.

Roberto Bolano

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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Book Control Desire Myself People Reading Writing
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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Arrest Myself Retard Thinking
Reading is more important than writing.
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Important Reading Writing
Every hundred feet the world changes.
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Change Travel World
We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we?
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Artist Goodness Hide Job
The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.
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Alive Fortune Ourselves World
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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Death Passage Reality Tradition
Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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Neighbor Poetry Prison
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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Believe Frame Innocent Masterpiece Soul Work
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.
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Book Myself Reading Wait World
Only in chaos are we conceivable.
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Chaos Conceive
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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Curiosity End Fun Honesty Voice
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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Children Grow Up Life Philosophy Stop Truth
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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Body Bone Death Sorrow Yourself
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.
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Desperation Life Moments
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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Constant Mirror Pain Poverty Voice Wealth

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