Cees Nooteboom
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Cees Nooteboom (July 31 1933, Hague) Dutch author, frequently mentioned for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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[edit] The Following Story (1991)
From the translated edition from Harvest, 1993 [ISBN 0-15-600254-X]
- I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.
- My tears are only triggered by kitsch.
- We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.
- That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.
- Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable events have taken their course, does not inspire conversation on my part.
- For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.
- Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
- The world is a never-ending cross-reference.
