Walter Abish
Books by Walter Abish
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Quotes by Walter Abish
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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.
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Some people Franz knew once visited the Turkish restaurant and reported to him that the food was quite good and the decor, in general, surprisingly attractive, and that for a foreign place, they stressed the foreign, it was remarkably clean and the service quite up to standards, not what you might expect from the Turks.
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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?
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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.
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