Bioy Casares Quotes

#1. Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

Philip Jose Farmer

#2. Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

Susan Orlean

#3. Our future matters, and it is up to us to take it back.

Hillary Clinton

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#6. Then Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.

Jorge Luis Borges

#7. Without standards, there can be no improvement.

Taiichi Ohno

#8. The I, the I is what is deeplt mysterious.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#9. Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. Taking the small box, he put the Edfrank jewellery piece away in his coat pocket.

Philip K. Dick

#10. 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

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#12. 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

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#14. We don't run out of stories, because of the characters. But also every year, the NFL, like a crazy rich uncle we never see, just drops some stories off at our door.

Jeff Schaffer

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#17. The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Charles James Fox

#18. ... 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

#19. The millions of skin-bound complications of salt water and minerals that were human bodies scattered throughout the Belt still needed food and air and clean water, energy and shelter.

James S.A. Corey

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#21. A good leader is not elected, he is appointed.

Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

#22. Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

Madame De Stael

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#26. 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

#27. As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Ovid

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#30. We need to support the governments of the world to create the world we want and I also think we need to empower the UN so that the secretariat, the people who work day in and day out, know that the people are behind them.

Jeremy Gilley

#31. It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of assholes ain't winning awards, but only one guy will be bombing. So, that's much more nerve-wracking.

Seth Rogen

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

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#33. If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Ralph Merkle

#34. jimi & and me

Adolfo Bioy Casares