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Famous quotes containing the word magnus:

“A pathological business, writing, don’t you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)

“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)

“Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)