"I have always kept ducks, even as a……" — W G Sebald
"I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind."
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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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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing…
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I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and…
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You know well that government always kept a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as…
— Richard Branson
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Being in the movie [School of Rock] was really cool. Sometimes we had to do takes over, but Jack always…
— Miranda Cosgrove
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Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and…
— P T Barnum
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I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically…
— George MacDonald
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Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her…
— Gregory Maguire
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I testify that bad days come to an end, that faith always triumphs, and that heavenly promises are always kept.
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