"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking……" — Milan Kundera
"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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More Ashtray Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in…
— Robert Breault
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I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a…
— Raul Julia
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I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the…
— John Prine
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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But…
— Salman Rushdie
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Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
— Anna Akhmatova
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts…
— Fidel Castro
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Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than…
— Gunter Grass
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I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I…
— Zach Braff
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Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.
— Helen Rowland
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I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.
— Roger Ailes
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I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
— Henry Beard
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British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
— Jimmy Carr
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