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“If you aren't rich you should always look useful.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.

At any rate that afforded me some comfort.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time. ”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
― Raymond Carver, Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night

“Али ако умрем, погледаћу последњи пут у небо, yтеху моју, и смешићу се.”
― Miloš Crnjanski, Dnevnik o Čarnojeviću

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls