Julio CortazarThinkers

The Cat is like the writer, in that he has not adjusted perfectly with his age.

History is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Memory is nothing if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously.

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

Quotation is a way of refering to the words of another, and citing ourselves.