Bohumil Hrabal Quotes

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• To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names
• I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...
• No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear…
• It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.
• ... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books…
• Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I…
• And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in…
• He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...
• As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was…
• I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful…
• Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the…
• I was always lucky in my bad luck.
• I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and…
• I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
• Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and…

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