Ismail Kadare Quotes
1936–2024
Also known as: Ismail kadare
Random Ismail Kadare quote
8 quotes
"If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?"
"It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed."
"And everything would be different, different."
"The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday."
"Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind."
"Can one move an empire as if it were a house?"
"Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship."
"To tell the truth, this was one of the few cases in which she had not told him just what she was thinking. Usually, she let him know whatever thoughts happened to come to her, and indeed he never took it amiss if she let slip a word that might pain him, because when all was said and done that was the price one paid for sincerity."