“Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, as Borges concludes in his story, it is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human.” — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted… — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
I always read the Latin American writers. I love so many of them: Gabriel García Márquez, José Donoso, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Luis… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life,perhaps even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of these may wash over us every day,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I first got online in the late '80s when I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Human life, Borges said, is a cascade of possible directions, and we take only one, or we perceive that we take only… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The hours I spent in this anachronistic, bibliophile, Anglophile retreat were in surreal contrast to the shrieking horror show that was being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
“The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Do not cling to the shore, but set sail for exotic lands and places no longer found on maps. Walk on hallowed… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Sanjala sam da sam J.L.Borges, koji je nekim čudom uskrsnuo, progledao, lupio se dlanom po čelu i brzo pretvorio u - Paula… — Dubravka Ugrešić Copy Share Image
“But if I accept these conditions," said Fosti, "what shall be the compensation of the king of Norway, my ally 'i" "… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“A mí no me gusta que la gente me haga confidencias, porque mientras me dicen cosas importantísimas pienso en otra cosa y… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I really wouldn't call a lot of what's online "literature" since that word, to me, refers to a sub-genre of writing that… — Lee Klein Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely… — Larry Howes Copy Share Image
There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him.… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen. —JORGE LUIS BORGES” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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![“This book first arose out of a passage in [Jorge Luis] Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a1/michel-foucault-1134_animals_this-book-first-arose-out-of-a-passage-i_571093.jpg)
![“To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal…” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd7/jorge-luis-borges-275_amazement_to-think-analyze-and-invent-he-pierre-me_1728957.jpg)
![“There [DreamTigers by Jorge Luis Borges] were these little fablesque things, you know, dream tigers, beautiful, beautiful pieces that when you read them had the power of a long piece, but they were prose, and they had the power of poetry, in that the last line wasn't the end, it was a…” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/873/sandra-cisneros-862_beautiful_there-dreamtigers-by-jorge-luis-borges-w_1879835.jpg)
