"The moral backbone of literature is about that……" — W G Sebald
"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."
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47 Quotes by W G Sebald
W G Sebald has 47 quotes on this site.
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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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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one…
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or…
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.
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