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Reading is more important than writing.

Roberto Bolano

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Roberto Bolano
Age: 50 †
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
Died: 2003
Died: July 16
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Santiago
Chile
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Reading
Important
Writing

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Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
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When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer.
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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, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.
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Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
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We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
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So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
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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, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
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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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I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.
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The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
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