“I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.”
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“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly poetry, that involved almost no math at all.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí. ”
― Cuentos
― Cuentos
“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― The Third Policeman
― The Third Policeman
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