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Wolf Among Wolves QUOTES

Wolf Among Wolves QUOTES

1 " Stories of regimental ladies long dead and forgotten (“I told her: ‘Dear child, I decide what tact is’ ”); stories of children long ago in possession of their own children (“And then the sweet little angel said to me”); stories of relatives long alienated; tales of promotion and dismissals; of orders and decorations; of wounds; of marriage tangles and divorces—the rag, tag, and bobtail of a life spent entirely in gossip and tittle-tattle about intimate, the most intimate, things. "

― Hans Fallada , Wolf Among Wolves

2 " Nothing has any value but money. Money. But in point of fact money has no value; the greatest possible enjoyment has to be squeezed out of it moment by moment. Why save oneself up for tomorrow? Who knows where the dollar will stand, who knows whether we shall be still alive tomorrow? "

― Hans Fallada , Wolf Among Wolves

3 " A man whose wife has done everything he wishes for twenty years can never understand why she so suddenly changes. The woman who for twenty years has been silent, forgiving, smiling, patient, becomes in his eyes a rebel when in the twenty-first year she loses her patience and argues, accuses, demands explanations.Then she is a mutineer against whom every stratagem is permissible. Twenty years of patience have only given her the right to be patient also in the twenty-first. "

― Hans Fallada , Wolf Among Wolves

4 " I was once again gripped by the old familiar passion; I wrote without looking up, nor did I look round either - neither to the left, nor to the right. "

― Hans Fallada , Wolf Among Wolves