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Uninterrupted writing fatiques, like digging.

— Robert Walser The Walk (1917)

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At any time the predilection for flowers can deteriorate into a decided foolish mania.

The Walk (1917)

I am thrilled to be writing a report on such a delicate subject as trousers [...]

Trousers (1911)

I don't want a future; I want a present. That seems more valuable to me.

A character in The Tanners (1907)

When the car arrives, you climb aboard, possibly after first politely ceding the right of way to an imposing gentlewoman, and then the car continues on. At once you notice you have a rather musical disposition. The most delicate melodies are parading through your head.

Berlin Stories (2012)

I hope no estrangement will ensue if I say that I am writing all these I trust pretty sentences, letters, and lines with a quill from the Imperial High Court of Justice. Hence my brevity, pregnancy, and acumen, possibly at certain points well enough perceptible, at which nobody need wonder anymore.

The Walk (1917)

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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