"... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself."

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Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Bohumil Hrabal

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.”
“I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.”
“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”
“The white race is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No other people on the face of the earth have been able to get along with white people since white people have been on our planet.”

Source : "Weird Weekends" with Louis Theroux, June 2, 1999.
“If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.”
“When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.”
“It is not good to have TOO MUCH of anything.”
“Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.”

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