Wolfgang Hildesheimer quotes

“The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Source : Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

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“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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“I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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“Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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“In the view of the fact that nature is dying, political developments are of secondary importance.”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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“How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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“The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work.”
-- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Source : Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1982). “Mozart”, Vintage

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“Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.”

“As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.63, Delacorte Press

“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world.”

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”

“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”

“My paintings are the last paintings one can make.”

“But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.”

“Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.”

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”