"We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller."

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Source : David Grossman (2008). “Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics”, p.44, Macmillan

David Grossman

#Writing Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.”
“Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.”
“What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.”
“Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.”
“You don't have to lower your morals to find love because, if you do, it's not love that you're finding.”
“When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch.”
“Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.”
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”

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