"Literature + Illness = Illness"

-- Roberto Bolano

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“One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.”
“So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.”

Source : "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.
“Travel definitely affects me as a writer.”
“Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.”
“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.”
“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”
“Victory is freedom of mind and body.' I believe that is true. I would go further and say that victory is freedom of mind from body. Separation from the thing that imprisons us. Flight. Perhaps freedom from life itself. That is victory. Life is brutal. It is like this whip and these ropes. It hurts. It scars. But we must take it.”

Source : Douglas Clegg (2004). “The Machinery of Night”
“I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.”

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