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Roberto Bolano quotes about great

Chilean Novelist April 28, 1953 – July 15, 2003

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Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another. Roberto Bolano
What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood... Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolano quote: "Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move..."
Only great challenges make it worthwhile to pack up and move all one's books. Roberto Bolano
Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark. Roberto Bolano
Roberto Bolano quote: "His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why."
His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why. Roberto Bolano

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