"A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a……" — W G Sebald
"A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom"
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47 Quotes by W G Sebald
W G Sebald has 47 quotes on this site.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and…
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past…
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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…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. At times they come back from the ice more than…
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are…
— M H Abrams
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and…
— Alan Ball
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
— Honore de Balzac
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If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of…
— John Berger
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover…
— Wendell Berry
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The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of…
— Annie Besant
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may…
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