"We take almost all the decisive steps in……" — W G Sebald
"We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious."
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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 Adjustments Quotes
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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.
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I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
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I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown…
— Scarlett Johansson
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Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go.
— Anne Burrell
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If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the…
— Jana Novotna
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Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For…
— Kathleen H. Hughes
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful…
— Elaine Scarry
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This year, I'm most thankful for the people around me who've supported me-my friends, and my family and boyfriend. It's…
— Lucy Fry
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It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure,…
— Bret Bielema
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A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the…
— Calvin Coolidge
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it…
— Carl Levin
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