More from Jorge Luis Borges

  1. A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given…
  2. Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the …
  3. The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
  4. Life and death have been lacking in my life.
  5. As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as…
  6. Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
  7. There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.
  8. The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a P…

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