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Top 20 Irmgard Keun Quotes (2025 Update)

Irmgard Keun Quote: “And I think it will be a good thing if I write everything down, because I’m an unusual person. I don’t mean a diary – that’s ridiculous for a trendy girl like me. But I want to write like a movie, because my life is like that and it’s going to become even more so. And I look like Colleen Moore, if she had a perm and her nose were a little more fashionable, like pointing up. And when I read it later on, everything will be like at the movies – I’m looking at myself in pictures.”

1. “And I think it will be a good thing if I write everything down, because I’m an unusual person. I don’t mean a diary – that’s ridiculous for a trendy girl like me. But I want to write like a movie, because my life is like that and it’s going to become even more so. And I look like Colleen Moore, if she had a perm and her nose were a little more fashionable, like pointing up. And when I read it later on, everything will be like at the movies – I’m looking at myself in pictures.”

— Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun Quote: “Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I’m going to buy him a tie, because that’s something I can do. Someone once told me that I have an almost masculine understanding of it. i guess there are situations where having a past is to your advantage. Heavenly Father, perform a miracle and give me an education – I can do the rest myself with make-up.”

2. “Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I’m going to buy him a tie, because that’s something I can do. Someone once told me that I have an almost masculine understanding of it. i guess there are situations where having a past is to your advantage. Heavenly Father, perform a miracle and give me an education – I can do the rest myself with make-up.”

— Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun Quote: “A writer in the act of writing must fear neither his own words nor anything else in the world. A writer who is afraid is no true writer.”

3. “A writer in the act of writing must fear neither his own words nor anything else in the world. A writer who is afraid is no true writer.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “I so want to give him my notebook – I want to be a real person – he should read my book – I work for him, I cook for him, I’m Doris – Doris isn’t just some piece of dirt. I don’t want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss’s imagination.”

4. “I so want to give him my notebook – I want to be a real person – he should read my book – I work for him, I cook for him, I’m Doris – Doris isn’t just some piece of dirt. I don’t want to be innocent, I want to be the real Doris here and not that silly civilized product of the Green Moss’s imagination.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “And they would laugh at me. The dress was all sticking out around me and it was dark green with a pattern of animals with long tongues on it – and all the kids were laughing at me. And now I’m wearing a fur coat, and I’m in Berlin! And I would throw rocks at them and swear to myself that I would not be the kind that is laughed at, but that I would do the laughing.”

5. “And they would laugh at me. The dress was all sticking out around me and it was dark green with a pattern of animals with long tongues on it – and all the kids were laughing at me. And now I’m wearing a fur coat, and I’m in Berlin! And I would throw rocks at them and swear to myself that I would not be the kind that is laughed at, but that I would do the laughing.”

— Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun Quote: “Well, I’m not that much into ideals. I can’t see the point of it.”

6. “Well, I’m not that much into ideals. I can’t see the point of it.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “You can always tell the profession of a girl’s last boyfriend, because they talk the language of his occupation.”

7. “You can always tell the profession of a girl’s last boyfriend, because they talk the language of his occupation.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “That says a lot, if somebody pleases you – love is so much more that I’m thinking, perhaps it doesn’t exist at all.”

8. “That says a lot, if somebody pleases you – love is so much more that I’m thinking, perhaps it doesn’t exist at all.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “For you being human means being human and being a woman and being a worker and being everything, everything. Asking a lot? Each of us is asked only for what he can give. Woe betide us, if he doesn’t give it all.”

9. “For you being human means being human and being a woman and being a worker and being everything, everything. Asking a lot? Each of us is asked only for what he can give. Woe betide us, if he doesn’t give it all.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “Sometimes there are mirrors that make me look like an old woman. That’s the way it’s going to be thirty years from now.”

10. “Sometimes there are mirrors that make me look like an old woman. That’s the way it’s going to be thirty years from now.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.”

11. “They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.”

— Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun Quote: “There are bars with women wearing shirts with stiff necks and ties and they are terribly proud to be perverts, as if that weren’t something nobody can do anything about.”

12. “There are bars with women wearing shirts with stiff necks and ties and they are terribly proud to be perverts, as if that weren’t something nobody can do anything about.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “And sometimes somebody is laughing – and that laugh is stuffing all of yesterday’s and today’s anger back into the mouth that it’s oozing from.”

13. “And sometimes somebody is laughing – and that laugh is stuffing all of yesterday’s and today’s anger back into the mouth that it’s oozing from.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “Gilgi is drifting in the river of superfluous feelings. Superfluous? They were once, they seemed to be once. Isn’t she happy? Of course she is. Often. But the hours of happiness come at a high price. The bill is presented promptly. Pay it! With what? With fear and twinges of pain. No, I don’t think the price is too high, I just find the currency strange. Fear – pain! To whom should I pay them? Who profits from this odd currency?”

14. “Gilgi is drifting in the river of superfluous feelings. Superfluous? They were once, they seemed to be once. Isn’t she happy? Of course she is. Often. But the hours of happiness come at a high price. The bill is presented promptly. Pay it! With what? With fear and twinges of pain. No, I don’t think the price is too high, I just find the currency strange. Fear – pain! To whom should I pay them? Who profits from this odd currency?”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “I continue to write because my hand wants something to do and my notebook with its white lined pages has a kind of readiness to receive my thoughts and my tiredness and to be a bed that my letters can lie in. That way at least part of me has a place to lie down.”

15. “I continue to write because my hand wants something to do and my notebook with its white lined pages has a kind of readiness to receive my thoughts and my tiredness and to be a bed that my letters can lie in. That way at least part of me has a place to lie down.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “I hesitate to demonstrate my ignorance, which is never a good idea, by the way. Because you only get oppressed.”

16. “I hesitate to demonstrate my ignorance, which is never a good idea, by the way. Because you only get oppressed.”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “Times are horrible. Nobody has any money and there is an immoral spirit in the air – just as you’re getting ready to hit on someone for some cash, they’re already hitting on you!”

17. “Times are horrible. Nobody has any money and there is an immoral spirit in the air – just as you’re getting ready to hit on someone for some cash, they’re already hitting on you!”

— Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun Quote: “And the real actors look down on those from the drama school and are sure to let them know. They also look down on each other, but that they don’t show too much. In any case, there’s a hell of a lot of looking down on each other, and everyone thinks they’re the only one who’s wonderful. And the janitors are the only ones who act like normal people and greet you when you say hello to them.”

18. “And the real actors look down on those from the drama school and are sure to let them know. They also look down on each other, but that they don’t show too much. In any case, there’s a hell of a lot of looking down on each other, and everyone thinks they’re the only one who’s wonderful. And the janitors are the only ones who act like normal people and greet you when you say hello to them.”

— Irmgard Keun

Irmgard Keun Quote: “I don’t want to work, but I have buoys of cork in my stomach. They won’t let me go down, will they?”

19. “I don’t want to work, but I have buoys of cork in my stomach. They won’t let me go down, will they?”

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Irmgard Keun Quote: “And we talked to each other at a restaurant and I was supposed to order wine and I would much rather have had something to eat. But that’s just like them – they don’t mind paying large sums for something to drink, but as soon as they have to pay just a small amount for something to eat they feel taken advantage of, because food is a necessity, but having a drink is superfluous and therefore elegant.”

20. “And we talked to each other at a restaurant and I was supposed to order wine and I would much rather have had something to eat. But that’s just like them – they don’t mind paying large sums for something to drink, but as soon as they have to pay just a small amount for something to eat they feel taken advantage of, because food is a necessity, but having a drink is superfluous and therefore elegant.”

— Irmgard Keun

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