"If written in the three-letter words of the……" — Harry Mulisch
"If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books."
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13 Quotes by Harry Mulisch
Harry Mulisch has 13 quotes on this site.
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All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
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A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it…
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Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's…
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In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of…
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I'm afraid love is just a word.
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But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.
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Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.
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If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
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All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them…
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Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that…
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I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it…
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That question is too good to spoil with an answer.
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More Alphabet Quotes
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.
— Giorgio Armani
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
— Frederic Goudy
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to…
— Murray Rothbard
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
— Jonathan Swift
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that…
— John Wayne
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
— Robert Fulton
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I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
— Dennis Miller
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
— Victor Hugo
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P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
— Mitch Hedberg
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth…
— Chris Brown
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