Roberto Bolano Quotes

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Roberto Bolano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: April 28, 1953 - July 15, 2003

Topics

LifeArtLieDamnMattersRealize

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Jim Evans

TexasWayUniversityThroughPaid

Some people come up and say they would like me to play Boba Fett again.

Jeremy Bulloch

PeopleMePlaySaySome PeopleUp

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

John Glenn

GoodMoneyPurposeSpacePeopleBad

I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

Robert Gottlieb

WorkDanceMeaningUnderstandSee

I can't stand confrontation, which maybe is a character flaw. But having said that, I do feel like when I do get upset - which is rare, as my husband and family would say - I have a hard time letting go.

Anna Faris

FamilyCharacterTimeHusbandStand

There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

Stephen Fry

LifeLiveWayStandardsEthical

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Mary Harris Jones

ShoesManPrisonRailroadSaidHim

The Women's Sports Foundation has empowered so many young girls and women across the U.S. I benefitted from WSF with a travel and training grant when I was 12 years old. It really helped my family financially.

Michelle Kwan

FamilyWomenSportsTravelTraining

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

Johnny Gimble

ManPhoneSaidFirstHimPay

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

Clarence Darrow

GodMenSupportPersonalBelief

Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They've feminized capitalism.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

WomenBestCultureCapitalismBack

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Antiphanes

WrongRightQuestRight And Wrong

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