A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96 — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Never yet has such furious movement brought in its train such slowness in the passage of time. Everything is spinning, only time stands still.… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Above all there's a lack of personal discipline, manners, decorum, natural discretion. If everyone causes their own individual catastrophes, how can there fail to… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several evolutionary stages… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“[O]ur relationship with nature has become warped. You see, nature has acquired a purpose where we are concerned. Its task is to amuse us.… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories. — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Of course the merchandise appears to be cheaper. Because where there are so many things close together, they can hardly help not thinking of… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
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