38 Quotes About Germans
- Author Erich Maria Remarque
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As far as I know, only the old Greeks had gods of drinking and the joy of life: Bacchus and Dionysus. Instead of that we have Freud, inferiority complexes and the psychoanalysis. We’re afraid of the too great words in love and not afraid of much too great words in politics. A sorry generation!
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- Author Jack Lewis Baillot
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Are you murdering more eggs for breakfast?” Japhet raised his head as the sound of boiling water filled the small apartment.“Don't insult my eggs, Buchanan.”“You insulted my roasted chicken, Kappel, so I can insult your eggs all I want.
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- Author Vladimir Nabokov
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[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it.
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- Author Markus Zusak
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The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.
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- Author Carey Harrison
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No matter what its citizens get up to, Hamburg always manages to keep its nose clean.
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- Author Raphael Lemkin
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The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in its execution and up to this point profited greatly therefrom
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- Author Bette Greene
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My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one.
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- Author James Hold
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A Britisher would say this is jolly exciting.""What would a German say?" Jo asked."I don't know. There's very little excitement in being German.
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- Author Elias Canetti
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The Englishman likes to imagine himself at sea, the German in a forest. It is impossible to express the difference of their national feeling more concisely.
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