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1 " Come on, can you imagine the Lone Ranger buying Silver at an auction? No, the Lone Ranger found Silver on the prairie. They found each other, and they hit it off. Same for Red Ryder. Only that ass Hopalong Cassidy would buy a new horse every year. "
― Roberto Bolaño , The Spirit of Science Fiction
2 " Si osservano per un istante, senza sorridere, come due piccoli piranha che nuotano in una camera a vuoto assoluto. Poi Jan disse:«Mi piacerebbe leggere qualcosa di tuo». "
3 " She sighed wickedly. “I wasn’t even saying good-bye to him, but to his penis. Ten inches. I measured it myself with my mother’s measuring tape.”“Shitshitshit. I’ll never let you come near me with a measuring tape.”“I won’t, I swear. "
4 " Era como Marlene Dietrich cantando «La respuesta está en el viento» de Bob Dylan, ¿sabes?, "
5 " The only thing an intellectual can do is watch things blow up, from a safe distance, of course. "
6 " There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare. "
7 " What a lovely young man,” said Estrellita. “And his darling balls are the color of gold.”Jan laughed.“It’s true,” I said.“That means that he’s destined for greatness. Golden balls are the mark of a young man capable of . . . great deeds. "
8 " To me, her smile is still the terminal smile of that other Mexico, a place sometimes revealed between the folds of a random dawn: part rabid will to live, part sacrifice stone. "