213 Quotes by Roberto Bolano

One is prepared for friendship, not for friends.

If you add infinity to infinity, you get infinity. If you mix the sublime and the creepy, what you end up with is creepy. Right?

The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on it. On the back, in a lighter red, was a map that showed exactly where the cafe was located. He asked the receptionist to translate the name of the place. The clerk laughed and said it was called Fire, Walk With Me.

A voz disse: cuidado, mas disse isso como se estivesse muito longe, no fundo de um barranco onde assomavam pedaços de pedras vulcânicas, riólitos, andesinas, veios de prata e veios de ouro, charcos petrificados cobertos de minúsculos ovinhos, enquanto no céu roxo como a pele de uma índia morta a pauladas sobrevoavam gaviões de rabo vermelho

For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.

A metafora az egyik módja, hogy elvesszünk a látszat világában, vagy hogy mozdulatlanul álljunk a látszat tengerében.

Toda escritura es una marranada. Las personas que salen de la nada intentando precisar cualquier cosa que pasa por su cabeza, son unos cerdos. Todos los escritores son unos cerdos. Especialmente los de ahora.

Instead I waited, which is what the Nude Descending a Staircase does, contrary to one's expectation and which is exactly why it has always provoked such a peculiar critical response.

Penso nos poetas mortos no potro de tortura, nos mortos de aids, de overdose, em todos os que acreditaram no paraíso latino-americano e morreram no inferno latino-americano.