QUOTES

And there’s a dead sparrow. Cause of death: life.
László Garaczi
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
Where we are is so horribly far away.
Lajos Parti Nagy
Do not hope and do not give up!
László Márton
He will be driving a car, a big car, preferably red, that he's sitting in. He'll look us over and call out: "Waiting for me, pussycat?" At this point we'd best look the spermatozoon right between the eyes, right down to the brain, and slowly, confidently assert: "No. For my menopause, actually."
Krisztina Tóth
Throughout our entire lives we keep silent about who we are, about the one only we know and cannot reveal to anyone.
Sándor Márai
To be properly creative one needs something else – some special strength or discipline or a mixture of the two; the stuff, I think, they call character.
Sándor Márai
A writer's greatest fear is the dread that, lacking anything new to say, he will some day become witty.
Imre Kertész

All poets carry their pencils in their pockets and their standards on the battlefield. Desks covered in rubble.
Aladár Lászlóffy