Imre Kertesz Quotes

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

Imre Kertesz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceMeYearBackProfessional

The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.

Joel Fuhrman

EarlyRiskCancerAdulthoodMost

People get really nuts around cars. They get angry at cars, they get angry at their car, they get angry at people driving in cars; there's something really comical about that, about automobiles.

Matt Dillon

CarAngryPeopleDrivingNutsGet

I'm concerned about my children being so much in the media.

Sridevi

ChildrenMediaBeingConcernedMuch

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

Stan Getz

LifeChoiceMoreKidRadioLittle

I need to just make as much noise and bang on as many doors as possible 'til men are, like, giving you the recognition.

Stormzy

MenGivingDoorsRecognitionYou

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

Liya Kebede

PersonalityMeBrandImportant

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'

Liz Murray

LifeFamilyChangeHomeMeNight

Elton John himself never seems pretentious but Bernie Taupin's lyrics often do - sometimes pretentious in a clever sort of way, but pretentious nonetheless. There is a conflict between Elton's and Bernie's personal styles, no doubt about it.

Jon Landau

ConflictDoubtSometimesPersonal

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

Don Lemon

ResponsibilityYouFirstAnything

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Clare Boothe Luce

EyesMirrorWomanManSelfEscape

Weekends are a real luxury for me because I'm usually working.

Clare Balding

MeLuxuryRealWeekendsWorking

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Philippa Gregory

MyselfRomanticI AmPeopleThink

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