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Anna Seghers

"What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, donâ€™t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldnâ€™t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: â€˜What do you think youâ€™re waiting for? Youâ€™ve been in Hell for a long time already."

Source : Anna Seghers (2013). “Transit”, p.186, New York Review of Books

Anna Seghers

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“I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!”
“I am just working on staying alive.”
“There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.”
“Back to work. If Iâ€™m [writing] Iâ€™m not thinking about the crazy.”
“I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.”
“[Howard Hughes ] approached filmmaking like he approached all of his inventiveness - it gave him an opportunity to make a name for himself in the world.”

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“I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.”
“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”

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