12 Quotes by Péter Esterházy

Quem vive não pode se esconder. devagar, tudo acontece conosco. O tempo mesquinho se contrai.

-Péter Esterházy

History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.

-Péter Esterházy

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    Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives up this purpose, this duty, it renounces all claim to legitimacy. I am Hungarian. I am Slovene. I am Serbian. You do not need literature for sentences like that. A bureaucrat will do, and a rubber stamp. A border guard. An Army.

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Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives up this purpose, this duty, it renounces all claim to legitimacy. I am Hungarian. I am Slovene. I am Serbian. You do not need literature for sentences like that. A bureaucrat will do, and a rubber stamp. A border guard. An Army.

-Péter Esterházy

 

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