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“In my opinion, only bakers need to work early in the morning. And the Gestapo, of course—that is self-evident. To tear the Bolshevist rabble from their beds, so long as they are not Bolshevist bakers. For they would already be awake, and thus the Gestapo, for their part, would have to get up even earlier, and so on and so forth.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“Wherever there is a large motorway enabling the transport of ton after ton of German goods, you will inevitably find a sweet little rabbit trembling by the roadside.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“Had I known back then just how cheap it was to employ Poles, I might as well have leapfrogged their country.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“The telephone, it struck me at that moment, is the wrong means of communication for people without ears.”
― Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back

“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”
― J. Robert Oppenheimer