"Iâ€™m seventeen years old, my name is Juan GarcÃa Madero, and Iâ€™m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. Iâ€™m an orphan, and someday Iâ€™ll be a lawyer. Thatâ€™s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night."

-- Roberto Bolano

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“It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.”
“God only knows what else is on the web about me.”
“Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.”
“B2uties are the most precious thing to me in this world.”
“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.”
“If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.”
“Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.”
“Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy.”

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