For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths… — Roberto Bolano Construction 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
“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
“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
“... among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.” — Roberto Bolaño Movie Copy Share Image
“History, which is a simple whore, has no decisive moments but is a proliferation of instants, brief interludes that vie with one… — Roberto Bolaño History Copy Share Image
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your… — Roberto Bolano Body 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
“The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on… — Roberto Bolaño Cafe Copy Share Image
“For a while we talked about things I've forgotten now. Or maybe we were silent for a while, me sitting at the… — Roberto Bolaño Dark room Copy Share Image
“After that moment, reality for Pelletier and Espinoza seemed to tear like paper scenery, and when it was stripped away it revealed… — Roberto Bolaño Time Copy Share Image
“I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the… — Roberto Bolaño Literature Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by… — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he… — Roberto Bolaño Brave Copy Share Image
“The fourth dimension, he liked to say, encompasses the three dimensions and consequently puts them in their place, that is, it obliterates… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“That night I didn't sleep a wink, said Norton in her letter, and it occurred to me to call Morini. It was… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“And then Lihn got out of the swimming pool and we went down to the ground floor, and we made our way… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“But I’m scared. And I need company. This morning I drove past the Santa Teresa prison and I almost had a panic… — Roberto Bolaño Business Copy Share Image
“I went on happily reading well into the night, when no one ventured on to the decks of the Donizetti, except for… — Roberto Bolaño Bibliophile Copy Share Image
“The town was sunk in a kind of crystal ball; everyone seemed to be asleep (transcendentally asleep!) no matter if they were… — Roberto Bolaño Autumn Copy Share Image
“When Espinoza was left alone (his flight was an hour later), his thoughts turned to Liz Norton and his real chances of… — Roberto Bolaño 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
“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
“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño Books Copy Share Image
“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
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of… — Roberto Bolano 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“…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
“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
“(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
