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W. G. Sebald Quotes

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: german
Birth: May 18, 1944 - December 14, 2001

Topics

Small Teach Write Always Fiction

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

Dog New York Parents People City Me

I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.

Man Fight Athlete Will Complete Roy

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

Jean-Luc Godard

History Easy Cinema See Up Where

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

Ground United Nations United Capacity

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

World Society Human Corner Arts

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Good End Bad Tragedy Means

'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.

Work Journey Beautiful Day Long

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Nature Wish Living Always Corner

We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.

Care Want Thinks Else Anyone

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.

School Think Common Like I Think

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

William Shakespeare

Start Seed Nothing Matter Anything

We try to play football; don't forget it, right. My teams always in my career try to play football. I cannot control the other circumstances.

Football Control Career Play Forget

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