“It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen. —JORGE LUIS BORGES” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Si me quieren buscar, búsquenme en los libros. No los lean, por favor, si no obtienen placer.” — 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
“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
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as… — Susan Sontag 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
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was… — Alberto Manguel 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
“But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez,… — Jeanette Winterson 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
“The truth is that we all live by leaving behind. Borges. That was it. Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes the Memorious, a book… — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner 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
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec 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
“Our penultimate lot, ladies and gentlemen, exudes an air of mystical melancholy. The tooth itself is crocodilian, but its aura is almost… — Valeria Luiselli 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
“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
“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
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him . . . he was… — Sheridan Hay 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
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
“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
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
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
[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
![“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/i/cd7/jorge-luis-borges-275_amazement_to-think-analyze-and-invent-he-pierre-me_1728957.jpg)
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![“[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.” quote by Sandra Cisneros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a46/sandra-cisneros-862_borges_jorge-luis-borges-had-short-stories-and_102630.png)