Best Roberto Bolano Quotes
- For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground,… Alien
- Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east. Bright
- Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came… Beacon
- 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 much to believe… Belief
- Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to… Arm
- We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely… Alive
- What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep… All
- One should read Borges more. Borges
- Only in chaos are we conceivable. Chaos
- The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune. Alive
- we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation. Deepest
- As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour… All
- Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it. D Rather
- In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats Castrated
- There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. Fists
- We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we? Artist
- Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the… All
- You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. Destiny
- You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for. Funny
- Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the… All
- The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight… Ah
- I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones. Educated
- If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear. Expectations
- In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. Absurd
- The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in… Age