Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes

#1. Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#2. The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#3. You have to work for love, you have to earn it, and you sure as hell have to maintain it.

Meghan Quinn

#4. ... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed the truth: man will one day create human life.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#5. The influence of the future on the past, said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#6. Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

#7. Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.

Elizabeth McGovern

#8. I believe we lose immortality because we have not conquered our opposition to death; we keep insisting on the primary, rudimentary idea: that the whole body should be kept alive. We should seek to preserve only the part that has to do with consciousness.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#9. The habits of our lives makes us presume that things will happen in a certain foreseeable way, that there will be a vague coherence in the world.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#10. Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#11. You know, that's what's wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better. Our society is hurtling in free fall toward heaven knows where,

John Brunner

#12. To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#13. The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk ...

John Galsworthy

#14. His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#15. I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#16. The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#17. jimi & and me

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#18. The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

Elizabeth George

#19. Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#20. The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#21. I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#22. And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures ... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#23. It's not that the magick has gone, it's just that you don't use it anymore!

Stephen Richards

#24. You can tell by the clothes Viki wears that music comes first in her life.

Randolph Randy Camp

#25. Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.

Malcolm Gladwell

#26. People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#27. I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

Noel Gallagher

#28. ...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#29. I wish I were writing this on you.

Tom Cardamone

#30. I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

Shelley Winters

#31. There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.

Ryan Holiday

#32. No great city has an abundance of parking.

Yves Engler

#33. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

Jane Fonda