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Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.…
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Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of…
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Question your tea spoons.
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What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time,…
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The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what…
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This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace…
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From this, one can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of jigsaw puzzles: despite appearances, puzzling is not…
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It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is…
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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the…
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One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my…
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Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into…
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My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries…
— George Steiner
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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
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and…
— Alan Lightman
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For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way, he was…
— Alberto Manguel
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