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Obstacles are only obstacles if you see them as obstacles. They can also be called opportunities. — Tucker Max

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot. — Imre Kertesz

Media always comments if I wear the same thing twice. — Prince Royce

Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp. — Imre Kertesz

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what? — Imre Kertesz

I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts. — Imre Kertesz

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions. — Imre Kertesz

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive. — Bruce Willis

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. — Imre Kertesz

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. — Imre Kertesz

A book is either autobiography or a novel. — Imre Kertesz

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself. — Imre Kertesz

I can love October in September. September doesn't care. — Dean Koontz

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. — Imre Kertesz

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate. — Imre Kertesz

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist. — Mark Driscoll

I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom. — Imre Kertesz

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. — Imre Kertesz

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth. — Rowan Williams

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it's still impossible to land exactly where we took off. — Colum McCann

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one. — Imre Kertesz

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. — Imre Kertesz

In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all. — Imre Kertesz

It was not very likely, of course, but then all kinds of things are possible, after all. — Imre Kertesz

In every moment there is a reason to carry on. — Kenny Loggins

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act! — Imre Kertesz

It is the spirit of the quest which helps — Kabir

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise. — Imre Kertesz

Two long lines of Shifters stretched over the field, standing unmoved. They expertly held composite bows at ready, various in origin and style. — A.O. Peart

Kurti had believed in politics, and politics had deceived him, the way politics deceives everyone. — Imre Kertesz

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution. — Imre Kertesz