Borges Fiction Quotes

#1. There is no question- love is the answer

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#2. Manuscript editions didn't immediately die out with the printing explosion that burst across Europe in the 1460s and 1470s. Manuscripts continued to be produced into the 16th century, many decades after presses had spread to most minor cities in Western Europe.

Ian Lamont

#3. I almost took the door off the car

Stephenie Meyer

#4. Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Jorge Luis Borges

#5. Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other than a cyclic volume, a circular one. A book whose last page was identical with the first, a book which had the possibility of continuing indefinitely.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.

Lucien Smith

#7. The truth is that we all live by leaving behind; no doubt we all profoundly know that we are immortal and that sooner or later every man will do all things and know everything.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. He insisted we sleep together, I insisted we didn't.
I won.

Sherry Gammon

#9. Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

Hal Duncan

#10. Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

#12. True faith always produces real conformity to Christ.

R.C. Sproul

#13. In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others.

Jorge Luis Borges

#14. A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear.

Marty Rubin

#15. I'm doing whatever I have to do to help my team win. So, instead of being focused on anything from the outside, I'm focused on winning and that next game.

Elena Delle Donne

#16. On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

Jim McKay

#17. Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

John Hodgman

#18. How long before the shouting starts? How long before the tears and the accusations and the pain? That specific stone n the stomach pain when you lose something you haven't got round to valuing? Why is the measure of love loss?

Jeanette Winterson

#19. His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Jorge Luis Borges