Schlink The Reader Quotes & Sayings

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal. — Bernhard Schlink

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people. — Geddy Lee

The more I suffer, the more I love. — Bernhard Schlink

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. — Roy Hattersley

He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action, who has found that centre of balance which is always over his point of contact with circumstances. He is the man whom Nature pours the riches of all her instincts. — Nilakanta Sri Ram

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you? — Bernhard Schlink

To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I. — Bernhard Schlink

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure. — Leo Buscaglia

There are going to be frustrations in life. The question is not: How do I escape? It is: How can I use this as something positive? — Dalai Lama XIV

Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan. — Walter Wykes

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink

Imagine someone is racing intentionally towards his own destruction and you can save him - do you go ahead and save him? Imagine there's an operation, and the patient is a drug user and the drugs are incompatible with the anesthetic, but the patient is ashamed of being an addict and does not want to tell the anesthesiologist - do you talk to the anesthesiologist? Imagine a trial and a defendant who will be convicted if he doesn't admit to being left handed - do you tell the judge what's going on? Imagine he's gay, and could not have committed the crime because he's gay, but is ashamed of being gay. It isn't a question of whether the defendant should be ashamed of being left-handed or gay
just imagine that he is — Bernhard Schlink