Celestial Harmonies Quotes

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“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.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“Bartók. Blame it on Bartók. Or the bossanova.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“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

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“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.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“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.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“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.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“Emotions are ill-suited for creating systems, my father's friend said, disheartened, whereas that's what we're talking about.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies

“274 My father is just like Piero della Francesca’s father: metaphorical.”
― Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies