5 Milan Kundera Quotes on Communication

Milan Kundera quotes on communication

10. The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of 'We are all writers!' The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

14. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

38. Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

47. You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

50. No love can survive muteness.