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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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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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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
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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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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
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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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Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs—because I want them—for the people who are unemployed. Not always standing there as moaning minnies. Now stop it!
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All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
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It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
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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.
