Kafka attended German schools, demonstrating his father’s desire for social elevation and later graduated from Charles Ferdinand University with a Law degree. His family life was marked by a domineering father, Hermann and a hardworking, educated mother, Julie. We hope you’ll join us.Franz Kafka, born July 3, 1883, was a German-speaking Jewish writer from Prague. That we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters we read books cover-to-cover but Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. World conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous Submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing toįounded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people Interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. by Eliezer Yudkowsky About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Once I've got together the money to pay off my parents' debt to him-that should take another five or six years-I'll do it for sure. Anyway, I haven't completely given up that hope yet. The boss has trouble hearing, so the employee has to step up quite close to him. He would've fallen right off his desk! How weird it is to sit up at that desk and talk down to the employee from way up there. I would've gone to the boss and told him just what I think from the bottom of my heart. Still, who knows whether that mightn't be really good for me? If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I'd have quit ages ago. If I were to try that with my boss, I'd be thrown out on the spot. For instance, when I come back to the inn during the course of the morning to write up the necessary orders, these gentlemen are just sitting down to breakfast. Other travelling salesmen live like harem women. "This getting up early," he thought, "makes a man quite idiotic. “He slid back again into his earlier position. ― Franz Kafka, quote from The Metamorphosis They had just gotten used to it, the family as well as Gregor, the money was received with thanks and given with pleasure, but no special feeling of warmth went with it any more. Those had been the wonderful times, and they had never returned, at least not with the same glory, although later on Gregor earned enough money to meet the expenses of the entire family and actually did so. And so he had begun to work with special ardor and had risen almost overnight from stock clerk to traveling salesman, which of course had opened up very different money-making possibilities, and in no time his successes on the job were transformed, by means of commissions, into hard cash that could be plunked down on the table at home in front of his astonished and delighted family. In those days Gregor's sole concern had been to do everything in his power to make the family forget as quickly as possible the business disaster which had plunged everyone into a state of total despair. “He had always believed that his father had not been able to save a penny from the business, at least his father had never told him anything to the contrary, and Gregor, for his part, had never asked him any questions.
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