"Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever"

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Source : Howard Fast (1977). “The Immigrants”, Dell Publishing Company

Howard Fast

#Arrogance Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Yiddish Quotes

“Everyone needs a little Edward in their life”
“What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.31, Random House
“If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed . . .”
“Strong families cultivate an attribute of effective communication. They talk out their problems, make plans together, and cooperate toward common objectives.”
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
“Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.”

Source : "Fashion Designer Anna Sui'sTalkAsia Interview". Interview with Lorraine Hahn, edition.cnn.com. July 31, 2004.
“The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.”
“You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.”

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