Dubravka

“Who, on seeing a Parisian apartment house, has never thought of it as indestructible? A bomb, a fire, an earthquake could certainly bring it down, but what else? In the eyes of an individual, of a family, or even a dynasty, a town, street, or house seems unchangeable, untouchable by time, by the ups and downs of human life, to such an extent that we believe we can compare and contrast the fragility of our condition to the invulnerability of stone.”
― Georges Perec, Life: A User's Manual

“Kultura se stvara u sukobu

Kultura se stvara u sukobu
a barbarstvo takođe.
Kulturu upoznah u Montecatiniju
barbarstvo kod svog rođe.

Rođo na barbarstvo ne misli
ni topličar na kulturu:
jedan misli na zavarivanje
drugi na uspješnu kuru

al onaj što hoda po tanahnoj međi
ispunja me revoltom
onu dvojicu pozdravljam naklonom
njega bih mogao koltom.”
― Ivan Slamnig, Sabrane pjesme

“Trebalo bi dati
Nobela
onome
koji je izmislio
trešnju”
― Semezdin Mehmedinović, Knjiga prozora

“No dictatorship has ever approved of jazz.”
― Philipp Blom, Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938