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Imre Kertész Quotes

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Country, Lying, Deception

"Liquidation" by Imre Kertész, www.nytimes.com. December 19, 2004.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

New Life

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

Raw Materials, Looks, Way

"Imre Kertész speaks to Himself". www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2013.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

Long, Way, Killing

"Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

Integrating, Refuse

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

Beautiful, Littles, Concentration

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

Talking, Enough

"Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

Police, Revolution, Just One

"Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Book, Writing, People

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

Our World, Order, Sick

"Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Feet, Yesterday, Streets

"Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

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