QUOTES

You can recognize Hungarians by two things. When they talk, they speak in a weird, obscure language full of E sounds; when they are silent, they seem to be wondering about what on earth they are.
László Márton
In every real life there comes a moment when one plunges into a passion as if flinging himself over the Niagara falls.
Sándor Márai
Ah, you've come to meet the author. It doesn't always work out, you know. It's a bit like having a wonderful meal of goose liver, then meeting the goose.
Arthur Koestler
The Hungarian language is isolated. The Hungarian language means death for world literature. To write poetry in Hungarian is galley slavery. The Hungarian language is exceptionally suitable for poetry.
Ágnes Nemes Nagy
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István Örkény: Spectacular Christmas Sale
And there’s a dead sparrow. Cause of death: life.
László Garaczi
It is not the smart and bright ones that society needs, but rather those who have their sports shoes, compasses and rulers with them.
Ervin Lázár
The following are accepted as Negative Characters: Islamic Fundamentalists, Suicide Bombers, Extraterrestrials, Nazis, Fascists, Bolsheviks, Murderous Armed Robbers, Mass Murderers, Desecrators of Dead Bodies, Paedophiles and Anti-EU Demonstrators. Characters not included in the above list are Positive Characters.
György Spiró: Commission for European Standards: Literary
In the end, man is only responsible for what he has planned or aimed for in life; the individual bears responsibility for his intent alone... What, after all, is action, but some kind of an arbitrary surprise? Man stands, and looks on in shock at what he is doing.
Sándor Márai
I don't think I believe in the existence of the soul. I wouldn't have thought that about myself.
Péter Esterházy
There are fifty liters of water in the body of a person who weighs a hundred kilos. We could bathe in ourselves like in a small tub on a housing estate; tightly, narrowly, just as we live, but it could be done.
Lajos Parti Nagy