Imre Kertesz Quotes

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.

Imre Kertesz

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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

Qandeel Baloch
- Up
- Women
- Change
It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- Good
- Believe
I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.

Eddie Redmayne
- People
- Myself
- Walk
When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

Walker Stapleton
- Found
- Go
- Coworkers
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

Ice T
- Up
- Men
- Think
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant
- Dark
- Ocean
- Without