Roberto Bolano Quotes

Not Only To Myself Or Before The Mirror Or At The Hour Of My Death, Which I Hope Will Be Long In Coming, But In The Presence Of My Children And My Wife And In The Face Of The Peaceful Life I'm Building, I Must Acknowledge: (1) That Under Stalin I Wouldn't Have Wasted My Youth In The Gulag Or Ended Up With A Bullet In The Back Of My Head. (2) That In The McCarthy Era I Wouldn't Have Lost My Job Or Had To Pump Gas At A Gas Station. (3) That Under Hitler, However, I Would Have Been One Of Those Who Chose The Path Of Exile, And That Under Franco I Wouldn't Have Composed Sonnets To The Caudillo Or The Holy Virgin Like So Many Lifelong Democrats. One Thing Is As True As The Other. My Bravery Has Its Limits, Certainly, But So Does What I'm Willing To Swallow. Everything That Begins As Comedy Ends As Tragicomedy.

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