“ Zelf heb ik Frisch één keer ontmoet, in Edinburgh. Wat weet ik daar nog van? Niet veel.Met Mulisch en Reve was ik de Nederlandse delegatie bij een groot schrijverscongres.1962. Vier jaar voor hij aan… Cees Nooteboom
“ Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending. Cees Nooteboom
“ When Sartre says man has been thrown into the world, he is alone, there is no God, we are responsible for what we are, what we do, I say yes!"The affirmative echoed around the woods. The dog pricked u… Cees Nooteboom
“ We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them. Cees Nooteboom
“ I could have forced myself to adapt," said Taads. "In this world the individual self is of such importance that it is allowed to become absorbed in itself and to grub around in its trivial personal hi… Cees Nooteboom
“ When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe that is true. Time itself is nothing; only the experience of it is something. When that d… Cees Nooteboom
“ Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world" — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — "were hatching a… Cees Nooteboom
