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Momo Kapor

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Momo Kapor’s literature is characterized with easy and simple style, clear constructions but with strong

messages. His works are translated in many languages. He was an author for 40 years and some of his
most famous works are: “Una” , “The notes of certain Ana”, “A book of complaints”, ‘’Phonies” etc.
Besides novels he also wrote plays, travelogues, essays. He did illustrations and had a lot of art
exhibitions around the world.

In honor of the anniversary of his birthday, read some of his beautiful thoughts on the blog today:

“Here’s to normal kisses, on a forehead with kisses with forehead!”

“I actually think that the weirdest people look very conventional, very standard. Because a person who is
really weird on the inside, who is in deep misunderstanding with the world which doesn’t accept the
person nor understand it, that person doesn’t feel any need to attract anyone’s attention. On the
contrary, that person wants to hide. For example, is there a weirder human being than Kafka and yet he
worked at insurance company in Prague, not looking any different on the outside from the rest of the
clerks.”

“Maybe happiness consists of stopping on time with the race for happiness? To get to life before a
doctor forbids us smoking, alcohol, food, bathing, tanning and love?”

“Today everyone has a mobile phone, but many don’t have anyone to call. All good things can never
come together at once.”

“A harder war from the civil and religious war is the one that everyone fights within oneself.”

“Things are not worth by how much they cost but by how much love we have put in them.”

“ Look now, my dear, she said to her friend Mitrovic, today the world is too layered so that it can be
explained and grasped with one ideology, no matter how advanced, avant – garde, all saving… Whether
we like it or not, we cannot say that we live in a time of ideology’s crises.”

“Walking, he was learning how to live without Una. To walk truly like a convalescent, but still to walk. To
eat, to eat, to drink by himself. To drink, to sleep but to laugh that was the hardest for him.”

“A half week without news about accidents and wars is needed! Friends are wanted, even worn out/
old, all the lost, the displaced, the missing, those who blew us to pieces, part by part, part of our time,
our love, those are wanted in order to return love.”

“A person can say that their life is not wasted, if they can do at least one thing better than others.”

“The new year is for amateurs, for those who never stay after midnight in a tavern/pub.”

“You shoudn’t be scared of solitude. It is noble, part of our life just like the gatherings. But not anyone
can endure it. It is not for the weak, for those who constantly have to be surrounded by others in order
to forget how weak they are. Not everyone from their solitude, like a shell, can form a pearl and gift it to
others. It is known that not every shell makes a pearl.”

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