Every writer creates his own precursors.

Jorge Luis Borges · Kafka and His Precursors (1951)

The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life, no matter how long or complex it may be, is made up essentially of a single moment—the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges · The Aleph (1949), The Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Jorge Luis Borges · From his essay on Dante's meeting with Beatrice.

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To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Clement of Alexandria · The Stromata (Miscellanies), bk. 1

Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you.

L. M. Montgomery · Anne Shirley's answer when Gilbert Blythe, finally accepted after years of waiting, warns her that a doctor's wife will see no "diamond sunbursts and marble halls"; the book prints YOU in capitals.

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“Every writer creates his own precursors.”

“The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.”

“Any life, no matter how long or complex it may be, is made up essentially of a single moment—the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.”

“Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.”

“I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you.”