Cees Nooteboom Quotes

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

He thought that, unlike most people, he had simply refused to let himself be brainwashed by newspapers, television, eschatologies, and philosophies into believing that "in spite of everything" this was an acceptable world simply because it existed. It would never become acceptable. Beloved maybe, acceptable never.