April 2012
1 post
“Was wir errungen haben ist ein neuer Konformismus, der uns erlaubt, alles, was...”
– Joseph Weizenbaum - Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft
March 2012
4 posts
“My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn...”
– Mark Twain - The Awful German Language
“well, class is something you see, feel, rather than define, you can see it in...”
– Charles Bukowski - Notes of a dirty old man
“Der Hacker ist nicht im Stande, sich ein klar definiertes Ziel zu setzen und...”
– Joseph Weizenbaum - Die Macht der Computer und die Ohnmacht der Vernunft.
“How pleasant it is to spend
an evening in this way! I declare after all there is...”
– Highlighted by Stefan Graupner in Pride and Prejudice
February 2012
3 posts
“Gosh, I haven’t heard of the base system in so long, I think I’ve...”
– John Green - Looking For Alaska
“there is only one place to write and that is ALONE at a typewriter. a writer who...”
– Charles Bukowski - Notes of a dirty old man
“they always equate pot with Revolution. pot just isn’t that good. for...”
– Charles Bukowski - Notes of a dirty old man
January 2012
4 posts
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham
“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps – she had proved to me that it was worth...”
– John Green - Looking for Alaska
“He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was...”
– James Joyce – Dubliners: A painful case
December 2011
1 post
“With regard to the world of female fashion and its customs, the present writer...”
– William Makepiece Thackerey - Vanity Fair
November 2011
1 post
“If life is the choices we make, as my mother once told me, then too much of life...”
– Joy Fielding - Grand Avenue
October 2011
2 posts
“I know there’s California, Oklahoma
and all of the places I ain’t...”
– The Head and the Heart - Down in the Valley
““Why don’t you sing Mommy a song?” Tony suggested, guiding...”
– Joy Fielding - Grand Avenue
September 2011
1 post
“Der Mangel an humanistischer Bildung hat viel mehr Aspekte, als die...”
– Heinz Zemanek - Die Sprache des Ingenieurs und des Programmierers
August 2011
3 posts
“One by one, they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other...”
– James Joyce – Dubliners: The Dead
“It is unhappiness and the wound that compels me. Then I can understand and be of...”
– Hanif Kureishi – Intimacy
July 2011
1 post
“Art is easy for those who can do it and impossible for those who can’t.”
– Hanif Kureishi - Intimacy
May 2011
2 posts
“You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever...”
– David Nicholls - One Day
“It occurs to me that there are six ages of book-reading. The first is picture...”
– David Nicholls – Starter for Ten
April 2011
4 posts
“Ah! the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us....”
– Oscar Wilde – An Ideal Husband
“Zieh dir was an, Mädchen, denn wer etwas kann, Mädchen, zieht dann und wann,...”
– Wir sind Helden – Zieh dir was an
“Sie konnte lesen und sie liebte das Lesen, aber auch im Buch las sie...”
– Alexander Grin - Das Purpursegel
March 2011
4 posts
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
9 posts
“Die Bestimmung des Menschen ist, ein Held zu sein, aber ein wahrer Held, ohne...”
– Alexander Grin
“Kinder sind weitherzig und vermögen durch den Zauber der Phantasie Dinge in...”
– Hermann Hesse
“Gedanken sind Arschgeigen, nur lauter vielleicht und noch weniger bereit, für...”
– Judith Holofernes - Ich muss früh raus
“Da sitzt einer über seiner Schreibmaschine, raucht zuviel, bläst Staub von den...”
– Hermann Kant - Die Aula
December 2010
6 posts
“Jeder Mensch ist nicht nur er selber, er ist auch der einmalige, ganz besondere,...”
– Hermann Hesse - Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne
“Für ein Kultur-Zeitalter scheint mir eine Spur zu viel die Rede zu sein von...”
– Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus
“Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ – which is more often...”
– David Nicholls - Starter for Ten
“Die Wahrheit aber ist nicht nur die Tat, sondern auch deren Folge, nicht nur...”
– Hermann Kant - Die Aula
November 2010
5 posts
“‘Socialising!’ is a euphemism too. ‘Lonely and Sexually Frustrated’ would be...”
– David Nicholls - Starter for Ten