Said Quotes by Roberto Bolaño

8 Said quotes by Roberto Bolaño

Eight Bolano moments where “said” weaves his haunting, lyrical prose. The selections provide a compact taste of his dark, atmospheric storytelling style.

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Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping…

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That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to…

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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…

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I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their…

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Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past…

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“He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said.”

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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…

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In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

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“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?”

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