3 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Seethaler

Robert Seethaler was born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1955. He lives in the Tyrol with his wife and two children. He started to read literature at the age of eight and soon became bored with his school books. Instead, he started to write stories about his imaginary friends Read more

He graduated from secondary school in 1973 with a diploma for English translation. In 1975 he attended the University of Applied Sciences in Upper Austria where he studied English Literature and American Studies. The decision to start writing manuals came during his short stay at the University of Bremen.

There he wrote training manuals for students who were learning English as a foreign language. After gaining experience as an English teacher at various schools he moved to Linz, Austria, where he worked as an English instructor at the vocational school "Bergakademie" (mountain academy) for two years. The first book he wrote was called "ABC der Englisch-Stadtsprache" (ABC of English city-speech).

Afterwards, he began to write books about traveling, skiing, sports, health tips, dieting, independent living and money management. While working on books on these subjects, he also wrote several non-fiction books on travel and skiing that have been translated into several languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. His first book, "Die englische Stadtsprache", was published by Verlag Meringer Auguste Spielmann GmbH in Austria in 1984.

His other books include: "Die englische Stadtsprache - 1+2", "Die englische Stadtsprache - B2", "Englisch zum Anfang - Einführung in die englische Stadtsprache für Anfänger" (English for Beginners), "Der Fremde im Land - Reisen mit dem Wohnwagen" (The Stranger in the Land), "Einführung in die englische Stadtsprache für Fortgeschrittene" (Introduction to the English City-speech) and "Die englische Stadtlandsprache - 3+4".

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It's a messy business, dying, ' he said. 'As time goes on there's just less and less of you. It happens quickly for some; for others it can drag on. Starting from birth you keep losing one thing after another: first a finger, than an arm, first a tooth, then a whole set of teeth, first one memory, then all your memory, and so on and so forth, until one day there's nothing left. Then they chuck what's left of you in a hole and shovel it in and that's your lot. Robert Seethaler
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In his life he too, like all people, had harboured ideas and dreams. Some he had fulfilled for himself; some had been granted to him. Many things had remained out of reach, or barely had he reached them than they were torn from his hands again. But he was still here. And in the mornings after the first snowmelt, when he walked across the dew-soaked meadow outside his hut and lay down on one of the flat rocks scattered there, the cool stone at his back and the first warm rays of sun on his face, he felt that many things had not gone so badly after all. Robert Seethaler