2666 Quote by Roberto Bolano Download Open image ““...posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats...”” — Roberto Bolano ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 2666
“You see, Evey, all the world's a stage. And everything else... ... is vaudeville.” — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“And as I walked up the steps to the stage, the most amazing thing happened: everyone started standing up. Not just the front rows,… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.” — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
“People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.” — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
“Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the stage with… — Augustus Copy Share Image
“They cheered and clapped, excited by the prospect of my musical pain. Twisted... every last one of them. If I still had any sense… — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
“Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, even if they are not funny, naturists don't, no matter how funny they are.” — Roy Station Copy Share Image
“I went to school to be a comedian. I was always cracking jokes in class. And after they were cracked, the teacher would try… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Complain. Whine. Be a fusser. The story needs those as well, because every butt needs a joke, and the audience must laugh. Whether they… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Hooting and hollering, the crowd reliably responded as if that were the height of humor, while Herman slapped me on the back and nearly… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
“But the funniest one they showed us was about the need for leisure time. I was sitting next to women who work until one… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“Throwing a sub at the Apollyon probably wasn't something that should be done in public. But I couldn't help it; I laughed.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout 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 love.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my opinion. There… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I try to find the books that I lost or forgot more than 30 years ago on another continent, with the hope and dedication and bitterness of those who search for their first lost books, books that if found I wouldn't read anyway, because I've already read them over and over, but that I would look at and touch just… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
“In a word, and bluntly: as they walked around Sankt Pauli, it came to Pelletier and Espinoza that the search for Archimboldi could never… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“book on Archimboldi, a book that might be the grand Archimboldian opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“The brief sound is like a color swallowed by a crack. But what color?” — Roberto Bolaño 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 the dictatorship of the three dimensions and thereby obliterates the three-dimensional world we know and live in. The fourth dimension, he said, is the full richness of the senses and the (capital S) Spirit, it’s the (capital E)… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share
“I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week. "Don't… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“I don’t have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don’t have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don’t… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image