“Old stories often turn out to be true.”
“My grandfather liked any story in which the unlikely turned out to be true.”
“What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not always just; but if you do not listen to it, then you will never understand justice.”
“Whoever is missing in action turns Into a flower, after he reappearsIn stories, such as the old people wereTelling...”
“It's often the hardest things that turn out to be the best.”
“What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be, jokes and games and pleasure included; what's laughable is how terribly little there is to laugh at with any joy.”