Walter Abish Quotes

• Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous.

  Walter Abish

  Truth, Brain, Accepting

  Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

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• Is it possible for anyone in Germany, nowadays, to raise his right hand, for whatever the reason, and not be flooded by the memory of a dream to end all dreams?

  Walter Abish

  Dream, Memories, Hands

  "How German Is It". Book by Walter Abish, 1980.

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• In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.

  Walter Abish

  Past, Training, Desire

  Walter Abish (1980). “How German Is It”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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