Imre Kertesz Quotes

It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

Imre Kertesz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: November 9, 1929 - March 31, 2016

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It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is determined by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more often than not, the collective kind of opinion will be the one viewed historically and taken as gospel.

Jim Lee

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Sushi is taking over the world. It's like pizza: you can get it everywhere.

Joel Robuchon

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I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

Robert Sean Leonard

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If the two economies can figure out how to waltz... I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I think there are benefits for Cuba as well.

John Hickenlooper

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'Hard Boiled' is my last film in Hong Kong, before I moved to the U.S. It is the one film which is most accepted by the audience in the West.

John Woo

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No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

Alysia Reiner

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But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

Sidney Poitier

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I'm not against anybody.

Mike Pence

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If there's a swarm of bees outside an open window, it might be a good idea to close the window, even if a few bees have already flown into the house. Somehow, Democrats who oppose shutting the border don't see the analogy.

Mike Gallagher

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I've been working since I was 13 completely straight without a break.

Christina Applegate

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These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Clara Zetkin

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Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.

Bonnie Bassler

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