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If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.
Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
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- Roberto Bolaño
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- Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1953 to 2003; Wikidata Q297532, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q297532 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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