"I am a hindrance to the world, and……" — Cees Nooteboom
"I am a hindrance to the world, and the world is a hindrance to me."
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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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As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional,…
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He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one…
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More Hindrance Quotes
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My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.
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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but…
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The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that…
— Jim Carrey
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing…
— Ole Hallesby
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation…
— Lucretia Mott
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The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female…
— Naomi Wolf
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Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to…
— Agnivesh
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Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will…
— Oswald Chambers
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The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can…
— Ernest Hello
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