Someday he'd be quicker... to be like the sun, which only s… - Sten Nadolny

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Someday he'd be quicker... to be like the sun, which only seems to wander slowly across the sky, yet whose rays are as quick as the blink of an eye. ...they reach in one instant the most distant mountains.

Sten Nadolny

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, (born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.

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The game went on. John had understood nothing. Everything was too fast: the game, the other's talk, the goings-on in the street...

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