"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)."

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Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Being In Love Quotes #Islands Quotes #Want Quotes

“The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.”
“From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.”
“Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are putting in front of me. If they made an attempt to get things right, then I'll criticize them for what they got wrong. If they made no attempt to get things right, and yet they stumble on something that's right, I'll comment on what they got right.”
“Best team player? As good as Lebron James is, I have to go with Messi. What he's doing, he's on pace to becoming the best ever.”
“It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.”

Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.109, Canongate Books
“Life like an empty dream flits by.”
“As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be.”
“You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.”

Source : "ReThink Review: Undefeated - Why Sports Matter" by Jonathan Kim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

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