"Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust."

-- Josef Skvorecky

#Holocaust Quotes #Important Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that they like me for me, so it adds no pressure.”
“Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.”
“If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.”
“In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.”
“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.”
“As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.”
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”
“I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.”

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