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sown with the bones of these forgotten youths

[...] everything that I’ve written is a love letter or a farewell letter to my own generation, those of us who were born in the 1950s and who at a certain moment chose military service, though in this case it would be more accurate to say militancy, and we gave the little we had — the great deal th…

—p.35 Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño
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what is top-notch writing? why/write

[...] a writer can have many homelands, and sometimes the identity of that homeland depends greatly on what he’s writing at the moment. It’s possible to have many homelands, it occurs to me now, but only one passport, and that passport is obviously the quality of one’s writing. Which doesn’t mean w…

—p.34 by Roberto Bolaño
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sobbing, I ask myself on my knees

The first is the fiefdom of Osvaldo Soriano, who was a good minor novelist. When it comes to Soriano, you have to have a brain full of fecal matter to see him as someone around whom a literary movement can be built. I don’t mean he’s bad. As I’ve said: he’s good, he’s fun, he’s essentially an autho…

—p.21 by Roberto Bolaño
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6 years, 5 months ago

you’re raising issues that are beyond my scope

Let us entertain, then, the possibility you are a successful man when it comes to understanding finance and that you have a knack for making money multiply but that you are a stupid man when it comes to understanding politics, history, and ideas. Why pretend otherwise? Like most people devoted to a…

—p.81 The Baffler #50: The New Booboisie An Open Letter to Leon Cooperman (76) by The Baffler
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this is how it always is with plutocrats
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