Phrase by 'W. G. Sebald'

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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Happy , Mind , Memory , Chance


I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Father , Small , Grandfather , Small Town


Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Nothing , Only , History , Opening


You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  You , People , Grow , Meeting


To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  You , Look , Happy , Memory


Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Me , Look , Memory , Some


In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Time , Great , Memory , School


I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Always , Way , Business , Through


Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Always , English , Small , Teach


Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

Author: W. G. Sebald - German Writer
  Something , Say , Bad , Positive


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