Edgar Hilsenrath famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
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The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
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I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.
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The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
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The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.
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In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.
-- Edgar Hilsenrath
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Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
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Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
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You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
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Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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The democratic process on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process, but should be applied to the industrial operation as well.
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