Walter Abish Quotes
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“America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.”
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Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.
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Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?
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“I lie and am lied to, but the result of my lie is mental leaps, memory, knowledge.”
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In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.