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One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

~ Siegfried Lenz

Ask Balance Decades Embarrassment Made Never Oneself Ready You

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Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it.

~ Siegfried Lenz

Am Capable Characters Convinced Dilemma Every I Am I Write Issue Look Once Representing Start Starts Story Theme Thoughts Write

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I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

~ Siegfried Lenz

Conclusion Corrections Deserves I Write Make Material Over Own Reach Read Stand Until Write

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I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

~ Siegfried Lenz

Come Desk Looking Me Mind Out Plot Rise Room Sit Slowly Waiting Window Yard

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Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

~ Siegfried Lenz

Be Happy Being Danger Discover Exposed Find Happily Happy Hurt Living Means Precisely Sometimes Suddenly Very You Yourself

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Siegfried Lenz

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17 March, 1926

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07 October, 2014

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