"He regarded life as a rather odd club……" — Cees Nooteboom
"He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?"
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Cees Nooteboom
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13 Quotes by Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom has 13 quotes on this site.
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Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
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Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage…
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Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.
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So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words,…
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The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
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Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers,…
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Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
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I find it unbearable to need a body in order to exist.
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She had nothing to do all day ... but did it with the greatest possible speed.
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I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.
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I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me.
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As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional,…
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