"Occasionally I write a small piece or the……" — W G Sebald
"Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German."
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W G Sebald
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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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More Always Written Quotes
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
— George Santayana
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I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
— Leif Garrett
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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what…
— Anne Robinson
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an…
— Herta Muller
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Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three…
— Frank Bruno
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
— Tea Obreht
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them…
— Ian Rankin
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He…
— Nancy Reagan
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
— Joan Armatrading
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