"There is a time for reciting poems and…" — Roberto Bolano

"There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists."

— Roberto Bolano

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62 Quotes by Roberto Bolano

Roberto Bolano has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

This quote is filed under Fists Quotes, one of 403 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and… — Margaret Atwood
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then… — Lester Bangs
One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist. — David Allan Coe
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to… — Colman McCarthy
When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand. — Alex Haley
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used… — Thomas G. Stemberg
A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is… — Pat Summitt
You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a… — Ray Lewis
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it. — Elie Wiesel
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my… — Anne Sexton
And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. — Leonard Cohen

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