"Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not."

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Jorge Luis Borges

#Book Quotes #Simple Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.”
“A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"”
“Help me give up my addiction to Hope.”
“Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.”
“I really love singing.”
“The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.”
“Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.”
“I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.”

Source : "A Film of One’s Own". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. September 3, 2006.

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