2666 Quotes

#1. It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum.
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Roberto Bolano

#2. The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

Anita Diamant

#3. Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?

H. Jay Dinshah

#4. My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

Stephen Hawking

#5. There was no opiate like a French pillow.

David McCullough

#6. And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

Lee Ann Womack

#7. I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Jack Kirby

#8. I'm a gypsy. A rogue. Wicked as they come.

Delilah S. Dawson

#9. Reading is never a waste of time.

Roberto Bolano

#10. With TV, you have so much to get done during the day that you don't really have a lot of time to feel your way through it. I know before I walk on the set exactly what I'm going to do. With film you can kind of find your way in it a little more, play with it some.

Lee Pace

#11. But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

Yoko Ono

#12. When working abroad you work pretty hard, but with time off, this is the greatest job in the world. You drive. You explore Memphis, or wherever you've landed, or go and see Dr John, or the Californian landscape. And, yes, I've had a few good meals.

Toby Jones

#13. When you increase in learning and education, you increase your ability to act, and you have a chance to improve your circumstances.

Steve Shallenberger

#14. Posterity was a vaudeville joke audible only to those with front-row seats ...

Roberto Bolano

#15. I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week.
"Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself.
"Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be.

Roberto Bolano

#16. The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis, the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.

Roberto Bolano

#17. I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You've got to go out and fight for it.

Barry Manilow

#18. I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.

Roberto Bolano

#19. I had to admire the Evil Dead-level dedication that went into thinking "I'll take a chainsaw into battle against a werewolf," even as I wanted to find out who thought it was a good idea and shake them until they realized the error of their ways. Almost

Seanan McGuire

#20. Life is shit, thought Pelletier in astonishment, all of it.

Roberto Bolano