"I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander."

-- Yehuda Bauer

#Bystanders Quotes #People Quotes #Holocaust Quotes

“The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.”
“I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.”
“Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.”
“I would love to do something with Coldplay.”
“Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”

Source : Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador
“The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.”
“We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically present in our minds right now.”
“Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.”

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