What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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The original is unfaithful to the translation.
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Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
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I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
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