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Type: Writer Quotes Category: Quotes Date of Birth: April 1, 1929 Nationality: Czechoslovakian Find on Amazon: Milan Kundera Related Authors: Napoleon Hill Ayn Rand Dale Carnegie Jonathan Swift Thomas Paine Anne Frank Voltaire Jane Austen Niccolo Machiavelli |
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
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Milan Kundera 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. Milan Kundera All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. Milan Kundera Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Milan Kundera Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. Milan Kundera Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. Milan Kundera Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. Milan Kundera For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? Milan Kundera Happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. Milan Kundera He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. Milan Kundera How goodness heightens beauty! Milan Kundera I find myself fascinating. Milan Kundera I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Milan Kundera Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Milan Kundera Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. Milan Kundera Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Milan Kundera Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. Milan Kundera 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. Milan Kundera No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. Milan Kundera |
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