“Her eyes like the ideal geography book: maps of pure nightmare. "The Ghost of Edna Lieberman” — Roberto Bolaño Book 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
“Ivanov had been a party member since 1902. Back then he had tried to write stories in the manner of Tolstoy, Chekhov,… — Roberto Bolaño Criticism Copy Share Image
“Our history consists of the various ways we find to elude the traps that open endlessly before us.” — Roberto Bolaño History Copy Share Image
“Without turning, the pharmacist answered that he liked books like The Metamorphosis, Bartleby, A Simple Heart, A Christmas Carol. And then he… — Roberto Bolano Books Copy Share Image
“As far as Popescu was concerned, meanwhile, Dracula was simply a Romanian patriot who had resisted the Turks, a deed for which… — Roberto Bolaño Different perspective Copy Share Image
…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should… — Roberto Bolano Feels Copy Share Image
“This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is… — Roberto Bolano Coincidence Copy Share Image
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… — Roberto Bolano Belief Copy Share Image
No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them. — Roberto Bolano Attention Copy Share Image
“I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.” — Roberto Bolaño Death Copy Share Image
“Listen: I don't have anything against autobiographies, so long as the writer has a penis that's twelve inches long when erect. So… — Roberto Bolaño Autobiography Copy Share Image
“My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order… — Roberto Bolaño Friendship Copy Share Image
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's… — Roberto Bolano Destiny Copy Share Image
“Today I realized that what I wrote yesterday I really wrote today: everything from December 31 I wrote on January 1, i.e.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“…no biography of his existed in German even though sales of his books were rising in Germany as well as the rest… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“I paid the taxi driver, got out with my suitcase, surveyed my surroundings, and just as I was turning to ask the… — Roberto Bolaño Alone Copy Share Image
“I’m mercurial, sometimes I want greatness, sometimes just its shadow.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Which is to say, boys, that I saw our struggles and dreams all tangled up in the same failure, and that failure… — Roberto Bolaño Dreams Copy Share Image
“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Humor 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
“Maybe "warehouses" equals "mothers", a wide margin of error is permissible when you're dealing with super-impositions.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
