"To spend our days betting on three-legged horses……" — Bohumil Hrabal
"To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names"
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15 Quotes by Bohumil Hrabal
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I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...
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No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of…
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It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in…
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Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like…
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And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a…
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He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after…
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As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing…
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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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Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads'…
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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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