Ralph Mannheim Translation Quotes

#1. The beauty and meaningfulness of an ordinary life.

Richard Alan Carter

#2. A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that's him, our master. Come, kiss me.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#3. This is why I came back ... Because you're you, and I couldn't stay away from you."
... "I'm glad you did, because I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to stay away from you.

Linda Kage

#4. Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. Everyone stumbles at one time or another. It's the human condition

Amby Burfoot

#6. My health is fine.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#7. The nights in Billancourt were soft and sweet, enlivened now and again by those childish airplane or zeppelin alarms which provided the civilian population with thrills and self-justification.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#8. They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn't go any futrther because of the ocean. That's France, that's the French people.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#9. Who are you?' one soldier asked in wonder after listening to him play for hours. 'Are you man or angel?' He laughed quietly. 'I'm both,' he said. 'I'm man because I live in a cold solitary cell. I'm an angel because I live above my circumstances.' The

Odafe Atogun

#10. Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.

Angela Benson

#11. There were no ordinary human beings. Everybody was born with a surprise inside.

Jincy Willett

#12. In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#13. I spent the rest of my day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. I felt like a circus knife thrower's target. If I held my mind immobile, I might avoid being hit by the blades whizzing by my head.

Amy Plum