"Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is BolaÃ±o playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were Borges's wisecracking, sardonic son, BolaÃ±o has meticulously created a tightly woven network of far-right litterateurs and purveyors of belles lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth, and the great lost hope."

-- Stacey D'Erasmo

#Son Quotes #Knives Quotes #Wicked Quotes

“I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so...I ignored it for a few hours.”
“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”
“There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.”
“You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.”
“As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States.”
“Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.”

Source : Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”
“I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.”
“I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.”

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