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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 reader's imagination will reject it.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 24
Died: 1986
Died: March 26
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Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential.
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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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