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telans17 апреля 2012 г.I added: 'I don't write novels any more.' I thought of Conchi and said: 'I've discovered I have no imagination.'
'To write novels you don't need an imagination,' Bolaño said. 'Just a memory. Novels are written by combining recollections.'468
el_lagarto9 июля 2014 г.Todos los buenos relatos son relatos reales, por lo menos para quien los lee, que es el único que cuenta.
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...Heroes are only heroes when they die or get killed. The real heroes are born out of war and die in war. There are no living heroes, young man. They're all dead. Dead, dead, dead.
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'What did you give him?' asked Sister Françoise as we walked towards the exit.
Since I thought she was referring to the pack of forbidden cigarettes that bulged in Miralles' shirt pocket, I blushed.
'Give him?'
'He seems very happy.'
'Ah,' I smiled with relief. 'We were talking about the war.'
'What war?'
'The war in Spain.'
'I didn't know Miralles had fought in that war.'
I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking across the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis —young, ragged, dusty and anonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.218 - telans18 апреля 2012 г.
All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.
217 - telans17 апреля 2012 г.
'If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.'
218 - telans13 апреля 2012 г.
The book's called Our War, and it's pretty good, though he tells a tremendous number of lies, as in all memoirs.
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BonaFides17 октября 2025 г.'Of all the stories in History,' I thought as Miralles spoke, 'the saddest is Spain's, because it ends badly.' Then I thought: 'Does it end badly?'
121- BonaFides17 октября 2025 г.
I don't listen to it any more; each time I do it makes me feel bad. I suddenly start thinking about what's happened to me, and especially what hasn't happened to me.
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