More quotes by Imre Kertész
Talking is not enough; words don’t clarify anything. I’ll have to hit upon something, but what?
If people had understood the greatness of those works, they would have destroyed them long ago.
Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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