Geerten Meijsing
Opinions & Quotes
Commonplace Book
Night Thoughts About Today |
| 'A satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity.' Trellis in At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien |
| Viktor Sjklovski |
| Where the rhinoceros carries in his white red eyes the unextuinguishable rage of a dismissed tzar and as only one amongst all the animals doesn't hide his contempt for all humanity and for a rising of slaves. |
| Peter Bichsel |
Und das Panzernashorn fand er schön.
'Ein Panzernashorn möchte ich sein', sagte der Mann, 'aber dazu ist es jetzt wohl zu spät.' |
| Flann O'Brien |
Each night, as this Irish author was dragging himself, hand over hand on the railing, from pub to his digs, blind drunk, he used to repeat to himself: 'Fuck the fucking fuckers!'
How often do you feel yourselves in a comparable mood, or do you rather agree with the Bond Against Cursing? |
| Anthony Powell |
| Women may think twice about whom they sleep with, they'll marry anyone. |
| Whoever believes in friendship is either a madman or a fool that deserves to be betrayed. |
| Sie starrte einen Moment vor sich hin, denn schritt sie langsam zur Tür. Und da erkannte Erdmann jäh, was ihn zu diesen Frauen so hinzog. Es war ihr Blick, ihr Blick ins Leere, das Schauen in eine ausweglose, graue Unendlichkeit. In ihren Augen, die durch die Wände hindurchstachen, spiegelte sich ein graues, grausames Nichts: in ihren Augen spiegelte sich der Tod. |
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.
I am all in favour of a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. |
| I had never, till then, faced the paradox of a dream vivid to the point of ecstasy yet destined to vanish. |
| Louis Calaferte |
| Sans le bon équilibre de la fonction sexuelle, l'âge n'est pour rien dans le passage de l'état de jeune fille à celui du femme. En ce sens, l'homme expérimenté est pour elle l'initiateur souhaitable. Telle une monnaie, il faut pour son authentification qu'elle passe par cette frappe. |
| Why Do You Read? |
| To get into the pants of Donna Tart or Martha Nuszbaum? Or to creep into the brains of Dan Brown and his likes? |
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| Test your literary knowledge |
Who was James Joyce?
Do you agree with the wish that he never had been born, or do you rather subscribe to a live-and-let-live theory? |
| Pascal Quignard |
L'amour est un don sans pitié parce que rien ne console de sa perte. L' amour est lié au perdu: c'est pourquoi toute perte le vérifie.
C'est la plus intense des douleurs.
On peut procurer une définition négative de l'amour:
l'amour est ce que laisse inconsolable.
(Vie secrète.) |
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