"Probably all of us, writers and readers alike,……" — Roberto Bolano
"Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood behind...The immigrant, the nomad, the traveler, the sleepwalker all exist, but not the exile, since every writer becomes an exile simply by venturing into literature, and every reader becomes an exile simply by opening a book."
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Roberto Bolano
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62 Quotes by Roberto Bolano
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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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