“I don't know what citizens of Prague must feel about these endless lines of tourists tramping over their streets.”
John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)
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As quoted in Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (2009) by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206 http://books.google.bg/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=bg
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