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Primo Levi

"Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human..."

-- Primo Levi

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“To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.”
“A lot of my work is about these moments you find, like when you're driving alone at night by yourself, or you sit at home and smoke a cigarette and all of a sudden there is beautiful music playing - for me it is sad piano music - and think, "I'm so in love and I don't even know with what." You want to freeze this moment.”
“Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they're beautiful, end of story.”

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“I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.”
“But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man.”

Source : "Song: Funky Cold Medina (Loc-ed After Dark)". March 21, 1989.
“Think about who you are. Think about how nice you can be to another person. By the same token then, to have your own opinion about life, you as an individual, with respect. But I think that's what the key to success is.”

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“I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.”

Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.
“Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.”

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