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Harry Mulisch

"In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, whatâ€”apart from the eternal innocence of animalsâ€”offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietÃ : a mother with her newly dead child on her lap."

Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Harry Mulisch

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“I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.”
“Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.”
“It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want to tell them in the audition that they have time to exchange ideas. I'm there. It's not someone else who does the audition, but I don't want to audition a thousand children.”
“I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.”
“It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.”
“Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.”
“Perhaps I shall not write my account of the Paleolithic at all, but make a film of it. A silent film at that, in which I shall show you first the great slumbering rocks of the Cambrian period, and move from those to the mountains of Wales...from Ordovician to Devonian, on the lush glowing Cotswolds, on to the white cliffs of Dover... An impressionistic, dreaming film, in which the folded rocks arise and flower and grow and become Salisbury Cathedral and York Minster...”
“Atheistic evolutionists believe that nothing created everything - a scientific impossibility. It couldn't happen. So they redefine the word 'nothing' to mean 'something,' so that in their unthinking minds, they can justify their foolishness.”

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