Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““and Germans are obsessed with shit.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“For countless Americans, Germany remains the ultimate metaphor of evil...” — Deidre Berger Copy Share Image
“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image
“...the Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One maniac and millions of German folks. Looked to me like they'd shut Hitler in a pen instead of letting him shut them up.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Q. Why don’t they work harder? A. They just don’t like hard work. The Germans have a reputation for hard work, so they like… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
“I beg you, no matter what happens, no matter where you go in life or how many millions you make, no matter anything, I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“I wish Americans were as simple and natural as Germans, don't you? I'm” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
