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It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Something , Language , True , Said


I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Time , Something , Long , Age


On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Who , Left , Deep , Retreat


My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Just , Over , Appreciate , Interesting


Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't. You can't attain it.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Humor , You , Things , Hard


I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Son , Wife , Born , I Was Born


Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my studies of Germanistics and Classical Philology during the summer term of 1939.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Study , Service , University , Summer


As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  House , Down , Wife , Relatives


Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Work , Place , Summer , Statistics


No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.

Author: Heinrich Boll - German Writer
  Love , Know , Will , Without


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