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No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.
— Courtney Milan
If it must be done, it's best done bravely.
— Courtney Milan
Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell.
— Milan Kundera
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
— Milan Kundera
She fixed him with a long careful, searching stare that was not devoid of irony's intelligent sparkle
— Milan Kundera
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
— Milan Kundera
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
— Milan Kundera
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
— Milan Kundera
Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.
— Milan Kundera
I only said I would stop talking to you, he'd written. I never promised to stop loving you.
— Courtney Milan
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
— Milan Kundera
You see so many surprising things and you think they're obvious.
— Courtney Milan
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
— Milan Kundera
Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it's selfish to do so.
— Courtney Milan
What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.
— Milan Kundera
You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.
— Courtney Milan
It's hard to live with people willing to send you to exile or death. It's hard to become intimate with them. It's hard to love them.
— Milan Kundera
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
— Milan Kundera
Miranda, how in God's name did you end up here?"
"Well," Miranda said. "It's a sweet tale, about kittens and puppies and rainbows and love. — Courtney Milan
"Well," Miranda said. "It's a sweet tale, about kittens and puppies and rainbows and love. — Courtney Milan
It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.
— Milan Kundera
In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
— Rabih Alameddine
But bright. So bright. It's a shame you're so impossible, Miss Fairfield, because otherwise, I think I would try for you.
— Courtney Milan
Milan. What a beautiful place to die.
— John Carradine
I do believe you would have cut the rope.
— Courtney Milan
I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.
— Natalie Cole
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
— Milan Kundera
Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
— Milan Kundera
Idiotic Lord Blakley," she groused.
"And how many tmes have I said it?" said a voice. "It's 'idiotic Gareth' to you. — Courtney Milan
"And how many tmes have I said it?" said a voice. "It's 'idiotic Gareth' to you. — Courtney Milan
If you're going to throw the girl to the wolves, it's only appropriate to outfit her with a red cloak.
— Courtney Milan
And even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her
— Milan Kundera
Took Amanda's hand. "Sisters," she repeated. "I walked away from you years ago. I'll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
— Courtney Milan
I'm not stubborn," Ash said. "I'm right. There's a difference.
— Courtney Milan
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.
— Milan Kundera
Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.
— Milan Kundera
So this is love:
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings. — Milan Rufus
the Sculptor's chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings. — Milan Rufus
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood
— Milan Kundera
When someone falls," Mark said, "you don't throw her back down in the dirt. You offer her a hand up. It's the Christian thing to do.
— Courtney Milan
A scarf from her dress works free and floats behind her the way memories float behind the dead.
— Milan Kundera
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
— Milan Kundera
When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway.
— Milan Kundera
He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
— Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
No day's too fair to die on, nor too foul either.
— Victor Milan
Change is a road less traveled, but a remarkable journey to take.
— Dr. Milan LaBrey
[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.
— Milan Kundera
When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
— Courtney Milan
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
— Milan Kundera
Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.
— Milan Kundera
Good thing he's not your boyfriend, though, Tina. He's so skinny, I think a condom would pop right off.
— Courtney Milan
Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
— Milan Kundera
The eye the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
— Milan Kundera
It's called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing what every man should.
— Courtney Milan
I lie, I forge I blackmail." Edward shrugged. "But cheating at cards? I'd never stoop so low."
"Good to know you have some principles. — Courtney Milan
"Good to know you have some principles. — Courtney Milan
You're perfectly right. There's no two ways about it. When you leave, it will slay me.
— Courtney Milan
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
— Milan Kundera
Is it something I said?" Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all.
— Courtney Milan
Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. It's so fashion-obsessed that people don't pay that much attention to the food.
— Joe Bastianich
[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)
— Milan Kundera
Maybe that's what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.
— Courtney Milan
#Note: There is a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Your goal is not to live long ... it's to live!
— Milan Jed
Robert was good at many things. Communicating with women was not one of them. "That's not what I meant," he muttered.
— Courtney Milan
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
— Milan Kundera
not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone
— Milan Kundera
Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories.
— Lindsey Kelk
Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.
— Catherine McNamara
That's what soldiers want to be. Brave. Glorious. A name.
— Joe Milan Jr.
Each interpreted the other's words in his own way, and the lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect Mutual misunderstanding.
— Milan Kundera
There's always another weapon to hand, if only you look.
— Victor Milan
The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.
— Milan Kundera
Breaking News: I am still standing!
— Milan Jed
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
— Milan Kundera
You matter," she whispered to him. "You are important. And you are the single most magnificent man I have ever had the honor of meeting.
— Courtney Milan
Family isn't a matter of history. Or biology," he said softly. "It's a matter of choice.
— Courtney Milan
Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them.
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan) — Johan Cruijff
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan) — Johan Cruijff
Ash Turner seduced her with the promise of her own self.
— Courtney Milan
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
— Milan Kundera
Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.
— Simon Hoggart
Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
— Courtney Milan