“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Comedy Copy Share Image
“pain is our only connection with life; only pain can reveal what life is.” — Roberto Bolaño Life Copy Share Image
Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of children tumble into the void.” — Roberto Bolaño Child Copy Share Image
“Philip K. Dick died and now we only need what is strictly necessary.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Only fever and poetry provoke visions. Only love and memory.” — Roberto Bolaño Dreams Copy Share Image
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will… — Roberto Bolano Business Copy Share Image
“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.” — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,… — Roberto Bolaño Book Copy Share Image
Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life ,… — Roberto Bolaño Happiness Copy Share Image
“With the innocence of the dead, who no longer mind being observed, the people in the photographs gazed out on the professors'… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to… — Roberto Bolaño Courage Copy Share Image
“He dreamed that he and Elvira Campos lived together in a cabin in the mountains. The cabin didn't have electricity or running… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“A rather small statue of Ernesto Cardenal shall stand in a Nicaraguan square in the year 2018. But all statues tumble eventually,… — Roberto Bolaño Divine intervention Copy Share Image
“La literatura se parece mucho a la pelea de los samuráis, pero un samurái no pelea contra otro samurái: pelea contra un… — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
“Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time?… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know… — Roberto Bolaño Laugh Copy Share Image
Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when… — Roberto Bolano 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 Writer Copy Share Image
“He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined kitchen-living room-dining room with windows… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Still, American television is full of smiles and more and more perfect-looking teeth. Do these people want us to trust them? No.… — Roberto Bolaño Good people Copy Share Image
“What is a look of absolute fear?" Popescu asked. The doctor belched a few times, shifted in his chair, and answered that… — Roberto Bolano Fear Copy Share Image
“He said that for those who hadn't been to California, what it was most like was an enchanted island. The spitting image.… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced… — Roberto Bolaño Common humanity Copy Share Image
“...then it wouldn't be a bad thing, or at least not the worst thing, to enter the third millenium asking for forgiveness… — Roberto Bolaño Asking for forgiveness Copy Share Image
“Around this time, Pelletier and Espinoza, worried about the current state of their mutual lover, had two long conversations on the phone.… — Roberto Bolaño American literature Copy Share Image
“It was raining in the quadrangle, and the quadrangular sky looked like a grimace of a robot or a god made in… — Roberto Bolaño Drinking tea Copy Share Image
![“[A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do…” quote by Roberto Bolaño](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/roberto-bola-o-725_real-story_a-nd-the-wizened-youth-trembles-more-and_1582042.jpg)
