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“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 facts of things do not store well. They rot and fall apart. But the stories we tell last and even grow.”
― Merrow
― Merrow
“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”
― Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
― Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
“Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.”
― The Pale Horseman
― The Pale Horseman
“How ridiculous were the attentions the weak paid one another in the shadow of the strong!”
― A House for Mr Biswas
― A House for Mr Biswas
The Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
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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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