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"By Night in Chile" Quotes
An aging Chilean priest and literary critic delivers a feverish, guilt-ridden monologue reflecting on his complicity with Chile's intellectual and political elite during Pinochet's dictatorship.
fiction | Published in 2003
Quotes
I am dying now, but I still have many things to say.
Everything was a matter of style, that was the only certainty.
In this country, if you don’t have a little bit of fear, you’re finished.
Literature is a vast and complex labyrinth.
In Chile, the nights are long and filled with silence.
All I wanted was to write with grace.
I have never been a brave man.
The world was falling apart, but we still read poetry.
The truth is, we are all cowards at heart.
My life passed between shadows and books.