"In some lost fold of the past, we……" — Roberto Bolano
"In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats"
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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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More Castrated Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being…
— Harold Wallace Rosenthal
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The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let…
— Theodor Adorno
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Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can…
— Murong Xuecun
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Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my…
— Murong Xuecun
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All homosexuals should be castrated.
— Billy Graham
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Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening…
— Helene Cixous
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They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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Backwards leaving, Barely beating Stupid reasons, useless feelings I wasn't that surprised(its always part of my) Awkward attempts to stay…
— Mariana's Trench
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I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty…
— Billy Graham
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Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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In college I castrated 21 rats, and I got pretty good at it.
— Lisa Kudrow
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