Top 41 Heinrich Boll Quotes
#1. If you want to do something ... get up and actually do it!
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#2. Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.
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#3. Medals don't suit me. I'm not that kind of guy.
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#4. A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.
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#5. To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.
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#6. One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more reliable.
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#7. Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.
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#8. One thing is certain, anyone who collects art is not an artist.
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#10. The characters and action in this story are purely fictitious. Should the description of certain journalistic practices result in a resemblance to the practices of Bild-Zeitung, such resemblance is neither intentional, nor fortuitous, but unavoidable.
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#13. I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you."
"And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh.
"I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences."
"And atheists?" He was still laughing.
"They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.
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#14. Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems.
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#15. Have you read any book from "heinrich boll"?he is my faverit writer . what do u think about his books?
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#16. ... she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of crucial significance, and one of the reasons she had separated from her husband was that he had never been amorous but had consistently made advances.
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#17. My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.
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#18. Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.
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#19. There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money.
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#20. No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.
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#21. On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.
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#22. Now the Irish have a strange custom: whenever the name of County Mayo is spoken (whether in praise, blame, or non-committally, as soon as the world Mayo is spoken, the Irish add: 'God help us!" It sounds like the response in a litany: 'Lord, have mercy upon us!
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#23. I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.
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#24. Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.
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#25. It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.
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#26. Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.
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#27. If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
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#28. As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.
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#29. We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.
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#30. I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me.
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#31. Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy.
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#32. The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
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#33. An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.
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#34. The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.
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#35. A child ... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.
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#36. One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.
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#37. For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately understand very little.
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#38. I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.
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#39. Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.
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#40. Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.
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#41. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.
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