In Begleitung von erlesenen Schmerzen.« Rincewind zögerte. Er war ziemlich sicher, die Bedeutung des Wortes ›erlesen‹ zu kennen, und es gehörte nicht in die Nähe von ›Schmerzen‹.
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Schneide es nicht ab . Wer nur in Abschnitten lebt, dem feh... DANIEL GLATTAUER Du kannst ihn nicht mehr enttäuschen, er ist nicht mehr da.“ Riley knallte sein Glas auf die... JAYDEN V. REEVES Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der... J.M. COETZEE [D]as Denken an sich gilt nicht mehr als Tugend, sondern als Zeitverschwendung. Es wird von speziali... JULI ZEH Über des Propheten Gebein ist jedes Staubkorn ein Pfeiler von Licht, Aufrecht von der Ku... AL-FAITURI Ich selbst spiele nie Billard, [...],aber ich weiß, dass man den Ball hoch oder tief, rechts oder l... ROBERT MUSIL Unfaßbar das erste Tier, das von einem anderen träumte. Ungeheuerlich das erste Wirbeltier, dem es... CARLOS FUENTES Das gute Buch macht den Menschen einzigartig und befreit ihm aus der Menge. Es gibt ihm die Möglich... DAVID GROSSMAN Er entschied, noch einmal die Wahrheit zu sagen. Es war eine völlig neue Taktik für ihn, und viell... TERRY PRATCHETT Ich habe sie Erfahrung gemacht, dass die Menschen aus vielen verschiedenen Schichten von Geheimnisse... VERONICA ROTH Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE [D]ie spezielle Müdigkeit, die jeden befällt, der sich anhören muss, was gut und böse, richtig u... JULI ZEH Siehst Du, Momo", sagte er, "es ist so: Manchmal hat man eine sehr lange Straße vor sich. Man denkt... MICHAEL ENDE Diese jungen Menschen hatten keine Wünsche, keine Überzeugungen, geschweige denn Ideale, sie streb... JULI ZEH Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeb... RAINER MARIA RILKE Das Amt für Desinformation pflegt nur bei schwersten Zusammenstößen von Magierwelt und Muggeln t�... NEWT SCAMANDER Simon." Ihre holte ihn in die Wirklichkeit zurück. "Simon, hörst du mir überhaupt zu?" "Hm? ... CASSANDRA CLARE Nun, wenn du siehst, wie etwas aus dem Meer kriecht und zu atmen versucht… Sag ihm, es sei die Mü... TERRY PRATCHETT Wir alle, ob schuldig oder nicht, ob alt oder jung, müssen die Vergangenheit annehmen. Wir alle sin... RICHARD VON WEIZSäCKER [W]enn ihr nicht mit Liebe, sondern nur mit Widerwillen arbeiten könnt, lasst besser eure Arbeit [.... KAHLIL GIBRAN Während ich mir mit Fernsehen und Radio die Illusion von Gesellschaft ins Verlies holte, konnte ich... NATASCHA KAMPUSCH Der Wahnsinn ist nur die Kehrseite der Macht, beide Ungeheuer wurden erschaffen, um einander zu näh... FAWZI MELLAH Auch, wenn ihre Nachbarn litten - solange das Leid nicht bei ihnen selbst Einkehr hielt, zogen sie e... MARC LEVY Aber die Liebe lässt einen genauer und immer genauer hinsehen. Man bemerkt den Handrücken, eine Dr... ALLY CONDIE Die meisten Lügen sind wahr und spinnen sich von ganz allein, kaum jemand kannte diese Wahrheit bes... 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Und deine Klamotten konnten das liebeskranke Gezicke nicht mehr hören und sind deshalb von dei... JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Bei den Big Five geht es um die fünf Dinge, die man in seinem Leben tun, sehen oder erleben will, b... JOHN STRELECKY Terror - manchmal offen ausgedrückt, doch meistens stillschweigend erkannt - schleicht sich in die ... KATHLEEN BARRY Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der Apfel blieb, da ihn nie... FRANZ KAFKA Daher ist die Dichtkunst Sache von phantasiebegabten oder von leidenschaftlichen Naturen; die einen ... ARISTOTLE Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht... RICHARD VON WEIZSäCKER Wie befreit man die Erde von den Menschen? Indem man die Menschen von ihrer Menschlichkeit befreit. RICK YANCEY Einerseits überschätzen wir den Andern, andererseits unterschätzen wir ihn und wir überschätzen... THOMAS BERNHARD Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ... STAR TREK Ich wollte meine Augen öffnen, um Gideon ein letztes Mal anzusehen, aber ich schaffte es nicht. KERSTIN GIER War ich kindisch? Verdammt, ja. War ich wütend? Und wie. Hatte er das ver... MARTINA RIEMER Das Leben geht weiter. Manchmal fragte ich mich, ob diese Tatsache nicht das Grausamste an unse... MAX RHODE Geschichten sind die Essenz des Lebens, Apolonia", sagte er, so ernst wie immer, und sie hatte das G... JENNY-MAI NUYEN Ich möchte wissen", sagte er vor sich hin, "was eigentlich in einem Buch los ist, solang es zu ist.... MICHAEL ENDE Man sollte meinen, in eine Million Stücke zerhackt und in den finstersten Teil der Unterwelt geworf... RICK RIORDAN Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft. -Goethe- JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Ein Greenhorn schleppt der Reinlichkeit wegen einen Waschschwamm von der Größe eines Riesenkürbis... KARL MAY Sie kannst du vielleicht täuschen, aber mich nicht." Er sah mich von der Seite an. Offenbar h... SAMANTHA YOUNG Agent Tanner sagte, dass die NSA sich etwas einfallen lasseb will. Anselm und Hannah haben sich eben... MARTINA ANDRé Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, da�... ARNO SCHMIDT Es gibt kein Vergangenes, daß man zurücksehnen dürfte, es gibt nur ein ewig Neues, daß sich aus ... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Er macht mir Angst", gestand ich ihr. Sie gab ein Prustton von sich. "Bei mir ist er die Liebe... SAMANTHA YOUNG „Was alle sagen, muss noch längst nicht stimmen. Etwas wird nicht richtiger, nur weil alle es so ... CARSTEN K. RATH Reiten, reiten, reiten, durch den Tag, durch die Nacht, durch den Tag. Reiten, reiten, re... RAINER MARIA RILKE In Homers Ilias scheint Thetis jedenfalls keine Einwände gegen die Beziehung ihres Sohnes Ac... YUVAL NOAH HARARI Meistens herrschte die betäubende Stille von menschlichen Gehirnen, die sich allmählich in Schmelz... TERRY PRATCHETT Das Spiel ist der Inbegriff demokratischer Lebensart. Es ist die letzt uns verbliebene Seinsform. De... JULI ZEH … Das verschlug mir für einen Moment die Sprache, ich hatte nicht gedacht, dass es so schlim... MARTINA RIEMER Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen B... SALMAN RUSHDIE Es war falsch zu lauschen, das war mir klar, doch irgendwie war es so schön kindisch, was mir ein B... MARTINA RIEMER So. Jetzt läßt das Zucken nach. Jetzt liegst du still. Wir sind am Ende von Physiologie und Theolo... ALFRED DöBLIN Und wenn ich mal heirate, dann muss mein Mann zwei Bedingungen erfüllen: Er muss Bücher und Kinder... ASTRID LINDGREN Eine Move bin ich von keinem Land, Meine Heimat nenne ich keinen Srrand, Mich bindet nich... EMPRESS ELIZABETH Ich las damals unendlich viel und zwar gründlich. In wenigen Jahren schuf ich mir damit die Grundla... ADOLF HITLER Der Schmerz, den wir alle über diesen Verlust empfinden, erinnert mich, erinnert uns, daran, dass, ... J.K. ROWLING Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö... J.M. COETZEE Dafür dass wir, wie auch die Tiere, von den Pflanzen leben, ja ohne sie nicht einmal atmen könnten... ERNST JüNGER einige gitarren, ein klavier, mikrophone von der decke, kleine schaumstoffpyramiden an den wänden. ... DAVID RAMIRER Es gab einige Dinge, die selbst hier zu Einigkeit führten: keine weiteren Grundsatzerklärungen, ke... TERRY PRATCHETT Wie wohlhabend, wie einflussreich sie waren, wie sie prosperiert hatten unter einer Regierung, die s... IAN MCEWAN Bedaure nicht die Toten, Harry. Bedaure die Lebenden, und vor allem diejenigen, die ohne Liebe leben... J.K. ROWLING Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre e... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Wenn ich nur ein Telephon habe, der Wald wird sich finden! Ohne Telephon kann man nur ... KARL KRAUS
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TERRY PRATCHETT That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is trut... TERRY PRATCHETT Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant... TERRY PRATCHETT Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly awar... TERRY PRATCHETT The living often don’t appreciate how complicated the world looks when you are dead, because while... TERRY PRATCHETT Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter! TERRY PRATCHETT I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard... TERRY PRATCHETT The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the... TERRY PRATCHETT We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we... TERRY PRATCHETT I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal... TERRY PRATCHETT The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for ... TERRY PRATCHETT Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising a... TERRY PRATCHETT My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know tha... TERRY PRATCHETT He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouti... TERRY PRATCHETT Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It... TERRY PRATCHETT My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage... TERRY PRATCHETT And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. TERRY PRATCHETT Everybody has somebody. It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One... TERRY PRATCHETT I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You'r... TERRY PRATCHETT But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav... TERRY PRATCHETT Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's on... TERRY PRATCHETT She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain th... TERRY PRATCHETT My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage... TERRY PRATCHETT There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the wo... TERRY PRATCHETT Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a ... TERRY PRATCHETT Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back. TERRY PRATCHETT The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. TERRY PRATCHETT Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck. TERRY PRATCHETT Ginger: You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?... It's all the people who never f... TERRY PRATCHETT There's a door." "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think. TERRY PRATCHETT Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen ... TERRY PRATCHETT No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... TERRY PRATCHETT The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid. TERRY PRATCHETT In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this ... TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT