Roberto Bolano Quotes
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.
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When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.
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Stop spending money you don't have.
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But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
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I think I was more like the black sheep, maybe, that, I was someone that you could blame on, but we were actually agreed on, that we had to stop now, because we came to a point, when it doesn't feel good anymore.
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It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.
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I feel like, growing up, I haven't had a lot of room for error - I don't have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I'm just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.
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I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
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False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
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The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.
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We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
