Milan Kundera Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Milan Kundera quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 54 we have.
“Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”
“All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”
“Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.”
“A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.”
“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.”
“There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.”
“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”
“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”
“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”
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