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1 " How are you? My father could say this quicker than anybody. He was always the first to say how are you, provided the occasion called for it, and he saw his chance. Thanks to this skill, he was made ambassador to England ... "
― Péter Esterházy , Celestial Harmonies
2 " History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain. "
3 " Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot. "
4 " Bartók. Blame it on Bartók. Or the bossanova. "
5 " Mi a különbség édesapám és az Isten közt? A különbség jól látható: Isten mindenütt ott van, ezzel szemben édesapám is mindenütt ott van, csak itt nincs. "
6 " Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century. "
7 " Édesapám pedig, akinél így minden összefolyt, mint a vizek az óceánban, azt gondolta (mikor még élt), hogy nyilván létezik valaki, Valaki, aki nekem se mond el mindent, hogy ne legyen sok nekem se. "
8 " 15 For fifty fillérs my father would eat a fly, for one florint you could take a picture of the cadaver in his tongue, for five florints and an apple (Starking), he’d bite a mouse in two. He never worked with outsourced mice, he liked to catch his own. "
9 " 210 My father: a horse has four legs, and it still trips up. In the same way, the Danube has two banks, but they shot the Jews into it just the same. "
10 " 274 My father is just like Piero della Francesca’s father: metaphorical. "