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The world is made of sugar and dirt.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Food
Cooking
World
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I read like the flame reads the wood.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Flames
Woods
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My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Book
Burned
Rate
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Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.
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The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Believe
Necks
Republic
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Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Matter
Teeth
Writing
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You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Destiny
Fate
Greek
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But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Men
Eye
Feet
Eyes Man World
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The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Home
Men
Cities
Colony
Principal
Being
Seat
Collective
Coral
Human
Group
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One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Daughter
Encounters
Father
Piano
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And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Friday
Justice
Rate
Satisfied
World
Reply
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No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Country
Peaceful
Water
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Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Different
Habit
Listening To Others
Unhappiness
Walking
Concerns
Somewhat
Several
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But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Life
Men
Thinking
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In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Book
Objectivity
Writing
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I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Teacher
Inspire
Thinking
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That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Kings
Glasses
Ice
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The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Dark
Objectivity
Reality
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Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Clothes
House
Oil
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Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two get out of life? Well, first of all, they get each other, then last Sunday a vaudeville and a film, then this or that club meeting and a visit to his parents. Nothing else? Well now, don't drop dead, sir. Add to that nice weather, bad weather, country picnics, standing in front of the stove, eating breakfast and so on. And what more do you get, you, captain, general, jockey, whoever you are? Don't fool yourself.
Alfred Doblin / Novelist
Life
Country
Nice
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