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“If hell’s in store for us someday, one of its most refined forms of torture will be to lock a person naked in a room filled with framed photos of his era.”
― The Tin Drum
― The Tin Drum
“Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.”
― Decline and Fall
― Decline and Fall
“The philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. For him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.”
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
― The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
“And Oskar was kneeling at the left side-altar, trying to teach the boy Jesus how to drum, but the rascal wouldn’t drum, offered no miracle. Oskar had sworn back then and swore again outside the locked church door: I’ll teach him to drum yet. Sooner or later.”
― The Tin Drum
― The Tin Drum
“The grim portrait of Beethoven hanging over the piano . . . was removed from its nail, and an equally grim portrait of Hitler was hung on the same nail. . . . Mama . . . insisted that Beethoven be placed, if not over the sofa, at least over the sideboard. This resulted in the grimmest of confrontations: Hitler and the genius hung opposite each other, stared at each other, saw through each other, yet found no joy in what they saw.”
― The Tin Drum
― The Tin Drum
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