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“Death's an old story, but new for each person.”
― Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley
― Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense, it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.”
― The Names
― The Names
“Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.”
― The Pale Horseman
― The Pale Horseman
“Awareness has infinite gradations, like light.”
― Bread and Wine
― Bread and Wine
“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought—even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.”
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The Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
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— last activity Oct 02, 2014 05:52AM
This group is dedicated to all aspects of the fascinating Weimar Republic of Germany, which began with the German Revolution of 1918 and ended with Hi ...more
Contemporary German Writers
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Anyone who is interested in German literature is welcome in this group :) The focus is on contemporary German authors even though classical works won’ ...more
German Literature
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— last activity Sep 27, 2014 10:01AM
A group to recommend new writers and to talk about Goethe, Schiller, Kant, Maria Remarque, Hermann Hesse and so on.
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