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W. G. Sebald Quotes

If you're based in two places, on a bad day you see only the disadvantages everywhere. On a bad day, returning to Germany brings back all kinds of spectres from the past.

W. G. Sebald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Past Bad Day You Bad Back

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Life Responsibility Self-Respect Own

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Jerry Della Femina

Me Thank You You Making Thank

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Andrew Weil

Day Travel I Am People Talking Long

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Melanie Mayron

Love Past Think You Labor Know

I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.

Robert Powell

Life Work Looking Easy Actor Always

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Hair Think Look Looks Little Count

That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.

Mitt Romney

Someone Country Say No Sense Sense

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Lorrie Moore

Myself Writing Sometimes Ask Even

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

Chelsea Cain

Good Simple I Am Me You Lose

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

Chris Rock

Time Comedy Writer Wanted

You have to work with people you really love.

Antonio Banderas

Work Love People You Really

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

Alison Owen

Father Mother School Parents Night