Best 13 quotes of Josef Skvorecky on MyQuotes

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

I notice that the artists, if that is what they are, at the tables around, have noticed my Scandinavian. Their artist girlfriends have noticed her New York fashions. And I never cease to notice her beauty, sad, as all beauty is, because it is not eternal.

Social conscience is a fashion, it changes every year.

Their is beauty everywhere on earth.

Whatever happens, we’ll all meet in that great card-index in the sky.

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

Write whatever you want. Danny, my dear friend, write and tell me what life really is.