"I remember learning German - so beautiful, so……" — Anna Funder
"I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung."
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16 Quotes by Anna Funder
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Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is…
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
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Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
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We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us…
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for…
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This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside…
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I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is…
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We…
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the…
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I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties…
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