Tibor Fischer Quotes

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• No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.
• Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.
• Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.
• The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
• Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having…
• Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase…
• Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you…
• I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one…
• Like most men, I'm a life support system for a phallus.
• As suburbs go, Bromley's not bad. But as David Bowie and Hanif Kureishi have observed, you do want to get out of there quickly.
• Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
• I never could get a proper job.
• It's what the reader thinks that counts.
• Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.
• New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.
• Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.
• As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people…
• I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced…
• It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable…
• One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article…

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