Imre KertÃ©sz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Country #Lying #Deception
I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Integrating #Refuse
One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#New Life
...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Beautiful #Littles #Concentration
There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Police #Revolution
Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Feet #Yesterday #Streets
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Long #Way #Killing
I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Our World #Order #Sick
Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Talking #Enough
I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Raw Materials #Looks #Way
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.
-- Imre KertÃ©sz

#Book #Writing #People

You may also like:

Antal Szerb
Writer
Dario Fo
Actor
Doris Lessing
Novelist
Elfriede Jelinek
Playwright
Elie Wiesel
Professor
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Gao Xingjian
Novelist
Gunter Grass
Novelist
Gyorgy Konrad
Novelist
Herta Muller
Novelist
J. M. Coetzee
Novelist
J.M.G. Le ClÃ©zio
Writer
Jean Amery
Essayist
Nadine Gordimer
Writer
Orhan Pamuk
Novelist
Primo Levi
Chemist
Samuel Beckett
Novelist
SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Writer
Tadeusz Borowski
Writer
V. S. Naipaul
Writer