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"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Kontext: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”

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Roberto Bolaño buch Amulet

Quelle: Amulet

“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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Roberto Bolaño buch 2666

Quelle: 2666

“We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.”

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Roberto Bolaño buch The Skating Rink

Quelle: The Skating Rink

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

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Roberto Bolaño buch 2666

Quelle: 2666

“How do you recognize a work of art? How can it be kept apart, even if only for a moment, from its critics, commentators, its indefatigable plagiarists, its defacers and its final destiny in solitude? Simple — just translate it.”

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Roberto Bolaño

Entre Paréntesis (2004) edited by Ignacio Echevarría, p. 223

“The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.”

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Roberto Bolaño buch Last Evenings on Earth

Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Kontext: One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.

“There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand”

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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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Roberto Bolaño buch The Insufferable Gaucho

Quelle: The Insufferable Gaucho

“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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Roberto Bolaño buch 2666

Quelle: 2666

“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”