Mia Arts

“I once saw an actor playing drunkenness—it took me a while to realize that he had put together his act taking this from one drunkard—that from the other—from another the slurred speech—from the other the movements—or the actions—or memories and with but and pieces had made a patchwork of drunkenness that didn’t correspond to any possible drinker and had no center—no truth and had been put together as if by a man who has no idea what drunkenness is and couldn’t imagine it in his head—I have to say it was mind boggling.”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“Loneliness is an aspect of natural human egotism.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp

“My genius is crumbling. I’m not complaining; it’s just that it hurts”
― Sophie Podolski, Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted

“There are fourteen million people living in Mexico City. I'll never see the visceral realists again. And I'll never go back to the university or to Álamo's workshop either. I don't know what I'm going to tell my aunt and uncle. I finished Aphrodite, the book by Louys, and now I'm reading the dead Mexican poets, my future colleagues.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives