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What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

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Julio Cortazar

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

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I have never described this to you before, not so much, I don't think, from lack of truthfulness as that, just naturally, one is not going to explain to people at large that from time to time one vomits up a small rabbit.

People, Rabbits, Small, Thinking, Time, Truthfulness

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room.

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Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

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The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

Eden, Future, Invent, Nostalgia, Paradise
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