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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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The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in an emotionless way. If you attempt it, the result is artificial. I don't like that kind of writing. I think that if a poem is really great, you should think of it as having written itself despite the author. It should flow.
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Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.
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Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
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The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.
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The word happiness exists in every language it is plausible the thing itself exists.
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I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
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All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
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I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future . . . I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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