Alfred Doblin quotes

Alfred Doblin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Friday Quotes #Justice Quotes #World Quotes
“I read like the flame reads the wood.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Flames Quotes #Woods Quotes
“Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Listening Quotes #Different Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes
“But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #Feet Quotes
“The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes #Cities Quotes
“I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Inspire Quotes
“No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Country Quotes #Water Quotes #Peaceful Quotes
“You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Fate Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Greek Quotes
“Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Writing Quotes #Matter Quotes #Teeth Quotes
“That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Kings Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Ice Quotes
“Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Futurism Quotes
“The world is made of sugar and dirt.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Food Quotes #Cooking Quotes #World Quotes
“But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes
“One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Daughter Quotes #Father Quotes #Piano Quotes
“My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Book Quotes #Rate Quotes #Burned Quotes
“The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Believe Quotes #Republic Quotes #Necks Quotes
“In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Objectivity Quotes
“Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Life Quotes #Country Quotes #Nice Quotes
“The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Dark Quotes #Reality Quotes #Objectivity Quotes
“Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.”
-- Alfred Doblin

#Oil Quotes #Clothes Quotes #House Quotes

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