“All that I’ve done, thought or been is a series of submissions, either to a false self that I assumed belonged to me because I expressed myself through it to the outside, or to a weight of circumstances that I supposed was the air I breathed. In this moment of seeing, I suddenly find myself isolated, an exile where I’d always thought I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn’t I.”
FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary.”
JORGE LUIS BORGES, Ficciones
“Most, perhaps even all, good work (or, okay, work that excites me) eludes easy generic classification; once we know it's coloring entirely within the lines of 'novel' or 'memoir' or 'Hollywood movie', I honestly don't see how anything emotionally or intellectually interesting can happen for the reader.”
DAVID SHIELDS, Reality Hunger
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