Walter Abish quotes
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“In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.”
-- Walter AbishSource : Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.7, New Directions Publishing
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“Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?”
-- Walter AbishSource : "How German Is It". Book by Walter Abish, 1980.
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“Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.”
-- Walter AbishSource : Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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Source : Ichabod Smith Spencer (1851). “A Pastor's Sketches”, p.117
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Source : Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS
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