Danilo Kis Professions : Novelist Born : February 22, 1935 Died : October 15, 1989 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Danilo Kis I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar. Danilo Kis scar scratches people You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end. Danilo Kis becoming-one roles play Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion. Danilo Kis powerful memories years I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature. Danilo Kis literature overcoming writing I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death. Danilo Kis butterfly struggle sleep Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
