100 Quotes by Herta Müller
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I speak a kind of Hapsburg language.
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Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
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One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.
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If, in the very first pages, I'm forced to read gratuitous phrases or banal metaphors, I won't be able to get inside the story. Only if the sentences 'sparkle' can I get hooked.
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I never wanted to be a writer.
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I find any kind of 'organizing' very difficult. And that has irksome consequences when it comes to books, since I've often wound up buying books twice because I couldn't find what I already have in all my mess.
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We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class. And I took them all very literally, that God sees everything, and so I felt I was always being watched. Or that dead people were in Heaven right over our village.
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I write in order to bear witness to life.
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I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.
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