W. G. Sebald Quotes

Mine is a European imagination, shaped largely by my very promiscuous reading in German, French, English and, with greater difficulty, Italian.

W. G. Sebald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Jim Carrey

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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

John Baldessari

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Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.

Andrew Forrest

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Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.

John Caudwell

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I'm really interested in harvesting surplus energy, energy that surrounds but we never really use.

Ann Makosinski

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You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one's there to see you.

Andy Grammer

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The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

John Updike

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

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I think my pocket presence and my ability to extend plays speak for themselves.

Jared Goff

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The last thing I ever want to do is be preachy.

Brad Paisley

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I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.

Ashley Jensen

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Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

Novak Djokovic

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