James Geary (proprietor of All Aphorisms, All the Time) presents selections from Aleksander Cotric’s Forbidden Thoughts, a new collection of Serbian anti-war aphorisms, including this gem:
“Nothing should slow us down; that’s why we have not opened our parachutes.”
I poked around a bit on the web and found selections from an anthology that looks rich, Serbian Secret Weapon, also with selections by Geary. Some of the selections are somehow simultaneously as sharp as a scalpel and blunt enough to bludgeon the reader, such as this by Rade Jovanović:
“We will slaughter each other.
We have no one closer than that.”
I’m still trying to figure out if either of these titles are available in an English translation.
In politics, the fruit always turns sour before it turns ripe.
Keep ‘em coming. I just subscribed to your blog, which is full of aphoristic goodness…