Quotes
Authors
Bernhard Schlink

"What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?"

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.104, Vintage

Bernhard Schlink

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“A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.”
“Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.”
“Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.”

Source : Haile Selassie's Address on the 18th anniversary of his coronation, November 2, 1948.
“Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world”
“Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.”
“One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.”

Source : "Tim McGraw Standing Up Against Violence", www.nashville.com.
“What's with the disco lights?" Michael said, rolling down the window between the driver's compartment and the back. Eve turned around, and her face brightened. "You like it? I thought it looked really cool. I saw it in a movie, you know, in a limo." "It's cool," Michael said, and smiled at her. She smiled back. "Can't wait to lie here and watch it with you." Claire said, "You don't have to wait; it's working now. Look--Oh. Never mind." She blushed, feeling stupid that she hadn't gotten that one in the first second. Eve winked at her.”
“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”

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