"Even the worst book can give us something…" — Wislawa Szymborska

"Even the worst book can give us something to think about."

— Wislawa Szymborska

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63 Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the…
Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still
There's simply too much fuss about myself,
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is…
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not…
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in…
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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