Monday, July 1, 2024

Quotes by Ismail Kadare

 

Ismail Kadare


QUOTES by Ismail Kadare

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

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It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.

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If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

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The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

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Thick smoke like a herd of black horses was rising over the massive building and being blown around by the wind.






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