W. G. Sebald Quotes
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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In some regions, under especially favorable conditions, the level of organization reaches that of enormously heavy organic substances, such as protein molecules and nucleic acids. Now the basic building blocks are given for the constitution of self-replicating units of still higher organizational level: cells. These systems maintain a constant flow of substances through their structures, imposing on it a steady-state with specific parameters. The inputs and outputs may achieve coordination with analogous units in the surrounding medium, and we are on our way toward multicellular phenomena. The resulting structures — organisms — are likewise steady-state patterns imposed steady-state patterns imposed on a continuous flow... The organic systems themselves, define the supra-organic (ecological or social) community. Ultimately the strands of communication straddle the space-time region within which the primary systems have come together, and those of its layers which provide conditions favorable to such structuration become organized as systems in their own right. We reach the level of the global (ecological, and on earth also sociocultural) system.
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This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was.
