"It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the……" — Joshua Foer

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• One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One… — John Barth
• Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the… — Edward Abbey
• My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges. — Jorge Luis Borges
• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of… — George Steiner
• Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with… — Stacey D'Erasmo
• I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael… — Alan Lightman
• For Borges, the core of reality lay in books; reading books, writing books, talking about books. In a visceral way,… — Alberto Manguel
• My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing… — John Hodgman
• I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three… — Paulo Coelho
• To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of… — Jorge Luis Borges
• We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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