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The Things That Are Said In Literature Are Always The Same. What Is Important Is The Way They Are Said. Looking For Metaphors, For Example: When I Was A Young Man I Was Always Hunting For New Metaphors. Then I Found Out That Really Good Metaphors Are Always The Same.

I Owe The Discovery Of Uqbar To The Conjunction Of A Mirror And An Encyclopedia.

A Book Is More Than A Verbal Structure Or Series Of Verbal Structures; It Is The Dialogue It Establishes With Its Reader And The Intonation It Imposes Upon His Voice And The Changing And Durable Images It Leaves In His Memory. A Book Is Not An Isolated Being: It Is A Relationship, An Axis Of Innumerable Relationships.

To Arrange A Library Is To Practice In A Quiet And Modest Way The Art Of Criticism.

If A Writer Disbelieves What He Is Writing, Then He Can Hardly Expect His Reader To Believe It.