“Among other things, my own experience has led me to believe that American naivete can sometimes be more than it seems; it… — Roberto Bolaño Naivete Copy Share Image
“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry… — Roberto Bolaño Literature Copy Share Image
“These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.” — Roberto Bolaño Bored Copy Share Image
“Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… — Roberto Bolano Construction Copy Share Image
“I suppose all the movies I've seen will be worth nothing to me when I die. Wrong. They'll be worth something, believe… — Roberto Bolaño Movie Copy Share Image
“The road to wealth is sown with false starts and failures that should in no way discourage the poor who make good… — Roberto Bolaño Failure Copy Share Image
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Alive Copy Share Image
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like… — Roberto Bolano Beach Copy Share Image
“they lost the sense of being in a hostile environment, although hostile wasn’t the word, an environment whose language they refused to… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“They talk but their words don't register on the soundtrack. Anyway, they must be saying things like how was your day, I'm… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
“Ivanov’s breath smelled of vodka and sewers, sour and heavy, like something rotting, reminiscent of empty houses near swamps, nightfall at four… — Roberto Bolaño Horror film Copy Share Image
“And then we would leave, and by that time it would already be dark, and as we headed to the bus or… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology… — Roberto Bolaño Memory Copy Share Image
“54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta… — Roberto Bolaño Children Copy Share Image
“I get the idea perfectly, Mickey," said Archimboldi, thinking all the while that this man was not only irritating but ridiculous, with… — Roberto Bolano Ridiculousness Copy Share Image
“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Gray mattresses with red and blue stripes in something that looks like a hallway or an overly long waiting room. In any… — Roberto Bolaño Living together Copy Share Image
“Marchand dreams that in one magical and endless night the rejected manuscripts make love every way possible with his abandoned manuscript: they… — Roberto Bolaño Love Copy Share Image
“That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is… — Roberto Bolaño Art Copy Share Image
“The Russians opened his mouth and with a pair of pliers the Germans used for other purposes they seized his tongue and… — Roberto Bolaño Wild beast Copy Share Image
“It was an almost supernatural power, I sometimes came to think (though immediately I mocked the idea), making normally talkative people like… — Roberto Bolaño End result Copy Share Image
“Did Jesus Christ, he asked, suspect that someday his church would spread to the farthest corners of Earth? Did Jesus Christ, he… — Roberto Bolaño Globalization Copy Share Image
“Someday Neruda and Octavio Paz will shake hands. Sooner or later Paz will make room on Olympus for Neruda. But we will… — Roberto Bolaño Neruda Copy Share Image
“Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Absurd Copy Share Image
“(since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has no shine and makes its home in a dark cave amid cave dwellers, some… — Roberto Bolaño Cave Copy Share Image
If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.” — Roberto Bolaño Literature Copy Share Image
“Belano se cree Breton, dice Requena. En realidad, todos los capo di famiglia de la poesía mexicana se creen Breton, suspira.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Brief like beauty, Absolute beauty, That which contains all the world's majesty and misery And which is only visible to those who… — Roberto Bolaño Beauty Copy Share Image
“a veces tenía salidas de este tipo, quiero decir que a veces parecía un niño malcriado, pero yo todo se lo perdonaba,… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that… — Roberto Bolaño Initiation Copy Share Image
“If you add infinity to infinity, you get infinity. If you mix the sublime and the creepy, what you end up with… — Roberto Bolaño Infinity Copy Share Image
“said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench, there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“…then he sat on his bed and for a fraction of a second the shadows retreated and he had a fleeting glimpse… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Y después de coger a mi general le gustaba salir al patio a fumarse su cigarro y a pensar en la tristeza… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Another time, talking about his books, the baroness confessed that she had never bothered to read any of them, because she hardly… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
