--- title: "1 Kafka Know Quotes By Rick Gekoski" description: "1 Kafka Know quotes by Rick Gekoski. Plus more from Rick Gekoski and more Kafka Know sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f20/rick-gekoski-43052_books_i-haven-t-re-read-kafka-for-forty-years_3126348.jpg" --- > [“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in the 1970s, but since then have not been tempted to return. The reason for this, I suspect, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/i-haven-t-re-read-kafka-for-forty-years-i-had-a-second-read-through/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f20/rick-gekoski-43052_books_i-haven-t-re-read-kafka-for-forty-years_3126348.jpg) ## More by Rick Gekoski > [“What is so addictive about fiction is that it is the one reliable place in which we can apprehend and participate in - fully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/what-is-so-addictive-about-fiction-is-that-it-is-the-one-reliable/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) > [“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the tendrils of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/reading-is-how-we-learn-to-attach-ourselves-to-ourselves-and-to/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) > [“To look at those (few) books in the dawning recognition that what they furnish is not a room, but a self.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/to-look-at-those-few-books-in-the-dawning-recognition-that-what-they/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) > [“If you will read and listen, you will admit a multiplicity of voices and points of view, consider them with some humility, allow them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/if-you-will-read-and-listen-you-will-admit-a-multiplicity-of-voices/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) > [“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. 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They filter memory, cleanse and sanitise it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/he-won-t-remember-any-of-this-he-s-too-young-and-it-s-too-painful/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) > [“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. I had a second read-through when first teaching English at the University of Warwick in the 1970s,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-gekoski/i-haven-t-re-read-kafka-for-forty-years-i-had-a-second-read-through/) [Rick Gekoski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-gekoski/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kafka-know/rick-gekoski/#itemlist", "name": "1 Kafka Know Quotes By Rick Gekoski", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I haven't re-read Kafka for forty years. 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