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“You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

tags: literature

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“Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.”
― Thomas Trask, Prism: Shadow of the Fates

tags: science-fiction, trask

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“You're a pickpocket right? That's cool. But you don't do it for the money, do you?"
"Maybe the end." I said abruptly.
"The end?"
"What will happen to me in the end. What happens to people who live the way I do? That's what I'd like to know.”
― Fuminori Nakamura, The Thief

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“For me, the word "writing" is the exact opposite of the word "waiting". Instead of waiting, there is writing.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: bolano, the-last-interview

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“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

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