"The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too."

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Source : "Testament to a Lost People" by Herbert Mitgang, New York Times, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 1983.

Roman Vishniac

#People Quotes #Holocaust Quotes #Saint Quotes

“Thereâ€™s this thing called progress. But it doesnâ€™t progress. It doesnâ€™t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itâ€™s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldnâ€™t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.”
“Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.”
“I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.”
“Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.”
“I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack of rheumatism. In the fourth game, I wasn't feeling well. And in the fifth game? Well, must one have to win every game?”
“I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.”
“A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism.”
“Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2014). “Aurora Floyd”, p.298, Jazzybee Verlag

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