WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 19 May 2026 16:54:56 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg corpus – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Borges, Jorge Luis -- Quoted in “The Talk of the Town” column, The New Yorker (1986-07-07) https://wist.info/borges-jorge-luis/64581/ https://wist.info/borges-jorge-luis/64581/#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:48:30 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=64581 When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.


Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine writer
Quoted in “The Talk of the Town” column, The New Yorker (1986-07-07)

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