"If you're going to say what you want……" — Roberto Bolano
"If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear."
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62 Quotes by Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolano has 62 quotes on this site.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is…
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The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive,…
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Literature + Illness = Illness
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But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track…
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum.…
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Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.
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When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over,…
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Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the…
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Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some…
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I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book…
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I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the…
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I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I…
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