Ignjat Djurdjevic Quotes

#1. I can't just open myself up the way some people can. And down here, you're raised a certain way. You're taught to keep some things private, family matters especially. It's just the way it's done."

"Everyone worships the past but no one really wants to talk about it.

Cathy Holton

#2. It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

Adora Svitak

#3. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. With words we begin to leave traces behind us like breadcrumbs: memories in symbols for others to follow. Ants deploy their pheromones, trails of chemical information; Theseus unwound Ariadne's thread. Now people leave paper trails.

James Gleick

#5. The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

Kobo Abe