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Heinrich Böll Biography

Heinrich Theodor Böll (German: [bœl]; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.

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Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.

Awful, Depressing, Humor, Humorous, Phenomenon, Professional

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

Imagined, Lying, Memories, War, Word, World

Strangely enough I like the kind to which I belong: people.

Enough, Kind, People, Strangely

If you want to do something. . . get up and actually do it!

Actually, Determination, Get Up, Want

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

Earnestness, Ludicrous, Seriousness, Virile

I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you. " "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences. " "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

Atheist, Catholic, Consciences, Laugh, Laughing, Trust

I need very little reality.

Littles, Needs, Reality

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Artist, Jackass, Jackasses, Males, Stray, Woman

I am a clown. . . and I collect moments.

Clown, Collect, Moments

Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.

Behinds, Hidden, Whole, Word, World

One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go.

Know, Know How, Order, Ought

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

Dead, Speak, War, Would Be

A child. . . never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

Child, Children, Order, Principles, Time

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