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Josef Skvorecky was a renowned Czech-Canadian writer known for his humorous and satirical style. His works often focus on the history and culture of Eastern Europe, as well as the exploration of individual identity. Born on September 27, 1924, Skvorecky fled from Czechoslovakia in 1948 and settled in Canada, where he began his writing career.

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Author:Josef Skvorecky

“When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.”

Ifs Party Crime Members Standing Commit Communist Loyal Protected Mafia Communist Party

Author:Josef Skvorecky

“Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.”

Writing Looks Literature Sea Lovers Criticism Remains Bottom Treasure Golden Hygiene Shipwreck

Book:The Engineer of Human Souls

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“Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.”

World Faces Artist Mirrors Bruises

Book:All the bright young men and women: a personal history of the Czech cinema

Source: All the bright young men and women: a personal history of the Czech cinema

“We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.”

Thinking May Facts Pleasure

Book:The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death

Source: The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death

“There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of.”

Feels Dream Earth Greater Ease Improbable Shrinking Beauty Everywhere

Book:The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death

Source: The engineer of human souls: an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love and death

“Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.”

Important Fiction Contemporary Holocaust Survived Fiction Writers Czech Bohemia

Author:Josef Skvorecky

About the Author

Born: September 27, 1924
Died: January 3, 2012
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 7

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