"To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular."

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Ann Goldstein

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“Until you know that who you are is empty and meaningless, you don't know anything.”
“In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
“I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.”
“It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.”
“One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.”
“Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.”
“The accursed hunger for gold.”

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