Anna Funder Quotes
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Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress,…
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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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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
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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 into the arena so that…
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.
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This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath,…
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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed…
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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 entirely possible to watch something…
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who…
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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 activists or the famous writers.…
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I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of:…
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There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but…
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The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be…
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one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
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