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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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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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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I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved.
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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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We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
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I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
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My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - don't depend on other people, do it yourself.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion.
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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.
