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W G Sebald has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have…
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We all have appointments with the past.
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At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing…
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We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
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The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where?…
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed…
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually…
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Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than seven decades…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds…
— Wole Soyinka
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We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as…
— Friedrich Engels
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Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.
— Guillermo del Toro
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I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.
— Brigitte Nielsen
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When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
— Nigel Farage
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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over…
— W G Sebald
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If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
— Nicolas Berggruen
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The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it,…
— Martin Filler
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It may be no surprise that Pittsburgh has direct flights to London, Paris and Frankfurt, but consider this: many of the tourists…
— Bill Dedman
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My Name is Major Benson Winifred Payne. As of 0800, I am replacing Major Frankfurt as your commanding officer.
— Damon Wayans
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