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Oskar Schell is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist.
Stephen Daldry to Adapt Jonathan Safran Foer’s Novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | /Film 2010
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Oskar Schell is one of the most memorable fictional children I have ever come across.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Oskar Schell is one of the most memorable fictional children I have ever come across.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 2007
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There was a kid by the name of Schell who was dying that Kennedy put in his bunk.
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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(Maximilian Schell is the prominent collector of Josef Albers squares.
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(Maximilian Schell is the prominent collector of Josef Albers squares.
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An old woman and a pretty girl seemed to take great pity on me, and gave me some bread and milk: but how great was our astonishment when the aged peasant called Schell by his name, and told him he well knew we were deserters, having the night before been at a neighbouring alehouse where the officer in pursuit of us came, named and described us, and related the whole history of our flight.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 Friedrich Trenck 1760
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I led the horses to the door, called Schell, and helped him, with his lame leg, on horseback.
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 Friedrich Trenck 1760
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The so-called positive aseity of Prof. Schell, meaning that
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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That must have made him seem like a natural for the role of Oskar Schell, who may or may not have Asperger's syndrome, and who outdoes any of J.D. Salinger's gifted kids in richness of vocabulary and complexity of ideas.
'Tattoo': Raw, Rousing and Rather Redundant Joe Morgenstern 2011
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