De ondraaglijke blankheid van het bestaan. Een bewogen leven in het land van Mandela Quotes

“don’t wait for happiness to send you a WhatsApp . . . go out and be it.”
― Marianne Thamm, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me: A memoir of sorts

“As we hurtle back towards the pinprick that is nothingness, this is what we must do. Relinquish the material things we hold onto that once provided meaning, but that cannot be taken with us.”
― Marianne Thamm, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me: A memoir of sorts

“Our neighbourhood was a seething cauldron of cultural rivalry that occasionally turned violent. There were two groupings of delinquents – ourselves, the English-speaking kids, and a pack of rough Afrikaners. There appeared to be absolutely no adult supervision outside of our homes. We were almost feral, our lives spooling like film in a twentieth-century camera, frame by frame. Except no one was holding the camera; no one was looking at us through the viewfinder of life. It”
― Marianne Thamm, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me: A memoir of sorts

“It is a testament to our stupidity that we learn nothing from history. Like”
― Marianne Thamm, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me: A memoir of sorts

“Life is sexually transmitted.”
― Marianne Thamm, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me: A memoir of sorts