"No book worth its salt is meant to……" — Bohumil Hrabal
"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 and run and beat the author's brains out."
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15 Quotes by Bohumil Hrabal
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I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen.…
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I was always lucky in my bad luck.
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I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum…
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