W. G. Sebald Quotes
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
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The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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I want to make sure there are no gatekeepers at the AG's door, and that anybody in the Department - they may have to come relatively late in the evening, just judging by the schedules to date - but if somebody has suggestions for how to make this a better department, that they know I am available.
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Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.
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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 emotion. Contiguity suggests layers of things, the past and present somehow coalescing or co-existing.
