“Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats — Roberto Bolano Cat Copy Share Image
we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. — Roberto Bolano Desperation 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Once again reality has proved that no particular group has a monopoly over demagogy, dogmatism, and ignorance.” — Roberto Bolaño Dogmatism 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
“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.” — 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
“When he went into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror, he thought his features were changing. I look like… — Roberto Bolaño Mirror Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Virtue 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
“[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
“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
Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other,… — Roberto Bolano 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 cannot actually see him, but there he is in my mind's eye, crouching or down on all fours, on a hillock,… — Roberto Bolaño Black clouds Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, after they'd done the shopping, they would stop, each with his or her cart, in front of a bookstore that carried… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“Then the sluice gates opened and Lotte said it had been a long time since she saw her brother, that her son… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Does his family have money?" I asked. "No, Ulises's family doesn't have money," said Requena. "Actually, the only family he has is… — Roberto Bolaño Family Copy Share Image
“For Padilla the shared act of smoking was basically a staging of loneliness: the tough guys, the talkers, the quick to forget… — Roberto Bolaño Broken dreams Copy Share Image
“From time to time I feel as though my books and figurines were with me still. But how could they be? Are… — Roberto Bolaño Books 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
“...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
“Hay momentos para recitar poesías y hay momentos para boxear.” — Roberto Bolaño Amor Copy Share Image
There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California. — Roberto Bolano California Copy Share Image
“Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books.” — Roberto Bolaño Worthwhile Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“You have to listen to women. You should never ignore a woman's fears.” — Roberto Bolaño Fear Copy Share Image
“I thought you were dying, said Amalfitano. "No, I was dreaming," said Castillo.” — Roberto Bolaño Death Copy Share Image
“It was the tyrannical, slightly stupid thing you say after you've made love.” — Roberto Bolaño Love 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)
