When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. - Josef Skvorecky
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
- Josef Skvorecky
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us. - Josef Skvorecky
We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived th… - Josef Skvorecky
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived th…
Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world. - Josef Skvorecky
Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.
When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protec… - Josef Skvorecky
When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protec…
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having… - Josef Skvorecky
There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having…
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just … - Josef Skvorecky
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just …
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