Anna Funder Quotes

• I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

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  Taken, Two, Worry

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.285, Granta Books

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• There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

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  Issues, People, Littles

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.238, Granta Books

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• Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

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  Memories, Unreliable

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.221, Granta Books

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• This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.

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  Dream, Real, Together

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• Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

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  Betrayal, Psychology, Mistress

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• Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

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  Suffering Of Others, People, Imagination

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• one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

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  Pain, Suffering Of Others, Doe

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• We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the arena so that we, forced to be gladiators, fight for it.

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  Fighting, Ideas, Arena

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.252, Granta Books

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• Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

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  Past, Grit, Pearls

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.162, Granta Books

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• The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.

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  Dream, Running, Space

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• Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

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  East, West, Drank

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.96, Granta Books

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• For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.

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  Past, People, Ordinary

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• At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.

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  Our Love, Who We Are, Remember

  Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance

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  Cynicism, Creation, Glances

  Anna Funder (2011). “All That I Am”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

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  Cake, Way

  Anna Funder (2011). “All That I Am”, p.153, Penguin UK

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• Recuerdo haber aprendido alemán -tan hermoso, tan extraño- en la escuela en Australia, al otro lado de la tierra. A mi familia no le sorprendía que aprendiera una lengua tan extraña y fea y, aunque por supuesto demasiado sofisticada para decirlo, la lengua del enemigo. Pero a mí me gustaba su naturaleza pegajosa, construir palabras largas y flexibles juntando palabras cortas. Se podían crear cosas que no tenían nombre en español: Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung.

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  Beautiful, School, Names

  Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books

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• I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

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  Pensamiento, Luz, Gente

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• I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible to watch something happen and not to see it at all.

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  Eye, Watches, Saws

  Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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