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Cees Nooteboom is a Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist. After the attention received by his novel Rituelen Wikipedia  

✵ 31. July 1933
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Works

The Following Story
The Following Story
Cees Nooteboom
Rituals
Rituals
Cees Nooteboom
The Following Story
The Following Story
Cees Nooteboom
Rituals
Rituals
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom: 13 quotes1 like

Famous Cees Nooteboom Quotes

“Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

Page 1
Rituals (1980)

“It is a peculiarity of time that in retrospect it appears so compact, an indivisible solid object, a dish with only one smell and one flavor.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

Page 4
Rituals (1980)

“My tears are only triggered by kitsch.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“Besides, I simply had to get back to my books right away, because the company of most people, once the predictable events have taken their course, does not inspire conversation on my part.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

Cees Nooteboom Quotes

“I had breezed home on the wings of five gins.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“It would be like this when you were really old-a city full of imaginary houses and women, rooms and girls.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

Page 125
Rituals (1980)

“The world is a never-ending cross-reference.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“From the number of self-murderers he had known-you had to put it that way, for the fact that someone died rounded off your knowledge of that person, if only because he or she could no longer present you with surprises-he was able to conclude that his circle of acquaintance must consist of a thousand people. If he were to invite all these voluntary dead to tea, two boxes of cream cakes from Berkhof's would scarcely suffice.”

Cees Nooteboom book Rituals

Page 20
Rituals (1980)

“We will feel the draft blowing through the cracks in the structure of causality.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“That is the difference between gods and men. Gods can change themselves; humans can only be changed.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

“For the sake of having her with me I had to tolerate the shadow of a tracksuited poet, but one who has taken the guise of a man in love will indiscriminately eat and drink platefuls of thistles, barrels of vinegar.”

Cees Nooteboom book The Following Story

The Following Story (1991)

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