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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
"Auschwitz was one of the wealthiest places in the world. Everyone who was deported there had been in such a hurry that they were only able to take along the things they loved the most. Well, of course, a musician would take along her instrument. But then they would take these precious possessions away from the prisoners once they arrived. All these things were kept in a part of the camp the prisoners called "Canada." It was like a giant warehouse." --
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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“Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.”
“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”
Source : John Wyndham (1958). “The chrysalids”
“When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.”
“I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a ***** thing.”
“I've dipped my toe into the beauty world and I'd like to keep it there!”
Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.”
“Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.”
“Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”
