"For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinthsâ€¦"

-- Roberto Bolano

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“I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.”
“He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.”
“For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was conscious of continuing a dialogue begun thousands of years before and which he believed would never end.”
“Even when I'm stressed out I'm not mean to people. I'm not constantly rude to people. But sometimes people are so rude.”

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“Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.”
“If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.”
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.”
“Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.”

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