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Said Quotes by Roberto Bolano
- So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the…
- The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.
- I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal…
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