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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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Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
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If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
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I gazed at every mirror on the planet, not one gave back my reflection.
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I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it’s very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
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We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
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I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for.
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Life and death have been lacking in my life.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
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