Quotes About Jorge

I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.

Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

We can handle all European themes, handle them without superstition, with an irreverence which can have, and already does have, fortunate consequences.

La realidad poética puede caber en una copla lo mismo que en un verso virgiliano.

Un atributo de lo infernal es la irrealidad, un atributo que parece mitigar sus terrores y que los agrava tal vez.

Haiku'yu biliyorum, iki üç hecede Bir an?, bir yank?y?, bir esriyiÅŸi yakalayan.

despertaba ese incompatible rencor que sólo causan la inteligencia, la gracia y la pedantería francesas [...]

Quain se arrepintió del orden ternario y predijo que los hombres que lo imitaran optarían por el binario y los demiurgos y los dioses por el infinito: infinitas historias, infinitamente ramificadas.

Let no one reduce us to the status of ascetics. There is no pleasure more complex than that of thought and we surrendered ourselves to it.

Jorge already did—checked the Berg tracking system. They went to a city called Denver.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

Patriotism, that least discerning of pas

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

I called out Rafael Dos Anjos in Brazil, so he could be a potential contender. People don't talk about Jorge Masvidal enough. He'd be a great fight: he comes to fight.

My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

For some reason, that's the title they're giving me: ''The Ultimate Fighter' Destroyer.'

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Mi piaceva, Colodino... Non l'ho preso perché era affittato come noi. Uccidere un coronel va bene, ma uno che lavora non lo ammazzo. Non sono un traditore..." Solo parecchio tempo dopo ho saputo che il gesto di Honório non si chiamava generosità. Aveva un nome più bello: Coscienza di classe.

Pelo jeito, aquela ia ser noite memorável, inesquecível. Quincas Berro Dágua estava num dos seus melhores dias.

Onde já se viu vadiar de camisola? Por que tu te esconde? A vadiação é coisa santa, foi inventada por Deus no paraíso, tu não sabe?

this is mathematical speculation by a bunch of overcaffeinated theorists.