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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Jorge Luis Borges

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Hide Metaphor Mom
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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Fiction Fight Funny Literature Story
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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Actor Confession Man Observation Oneself Performance
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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Himself Misunderstanding Reading Thinking
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Faith Original Translation
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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Animal Time
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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Popular Sports Stupidity
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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Future Hope Memories Present Reality
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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Death Form Fragile Lose World
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
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Believe Freedom Government Point Reach Time
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
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Ease Friendship Minority Myself Time Writing
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
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Partial Reality Symmetry
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Immortal Live Truth Willing

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

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