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se puede ser un buen escritor siendo una pésima persona..." "De todas las historias de la historia", escribió Jaime Gil de Biedma, "sin duda la más triste es la de España, porque termina mal

Uno de mis primeros entrevistados fue Roberto Bolaño. Bolaño, que era escritor y chileno, vivía desde hacía mucho tiempo en Blanes, un pueblo costero situado en la frontera entre Barcelona y Gerona, tenía cuarenta y siete años, un buen número de libros a sus espaldas y ese aire inconfundible de buhonero hippie que aqueja a tantos latinoamericanos de su generación exiliados en Europa.

when writing tests you should prefer DAMP (Descriptive And Maintainable Procedures) to DRY.

It's a form of amplification, an essential rhetorical tactic that turns up the volume as you speak. In a presentation, you can amplify by layering your points: "Not only do we have this, but we also

Hatch smiled again and glanced around the small

Molly gave him a questioning smile, revealing two slightly crooked front teeth.

It occurred to her that after what he must have seen in the course of his FBI profiling work, death by garden tools was probably a fairly tame scenario.

Other Guild bosses have loyal minions to guard their backs. I get a dust bunny who's into glitz…

Marriage is mostly a sucker bet Spoken by the woman with Dream Husband You just said Dream Husband might take a turn down the road and decide he wants to do a threesome or _ Me! Me! Peabody shot up a hand. Pick me! Eve & Peabody

It's by far the frostiest thing I've ever seen. I'm going to be the cop who ate Manhattan.

Marilynne Eichinger's book will bring added interest to museums and what they can offer now and in the future.

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

In the past, bad literature was made with high-flown sentiment; today, it is made with the unconscious.

With the mechanics of the transpolitical, the transsexual and the transaesthetic, all desiring machines are becoming bachelor machines...

Innocence, that mild form of mental deficiency, has the same aphrodisiac effect as softness of skin.

Tautology, being the most vulgar logical expression, is always the strongest argument.

Because it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

work in which psychology

The lamp I am writing by is deer fat poured into a turtle shell with a strip of my old city trousers for a wick.

Cause I'm telling you, I read all the time. Seventy-five novels last year, I counted! Well, Goodreads counted.

Anyone could be an idiot or a jerk, separately, but the combination of ignorance and meanspiritedness--that was special.

Great Mother!I can't believe it!Now I understand.(Mamut) I do not understand, Ayla said

leather and took it outside.

But the operation of writing implies that of reading as its dialectical correlative and these two connected acts necessitate two distinct agents. It is the joint effort of author and reader, which brings upon the scene that concrete and imaginary object which is the work of the mind. There is no art except for and by others.