"History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.65, A&C Black

Anne Michaels

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“The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other.”
“Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.”
“I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.”
“Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.”

Source : Time, August 28, 1972.
“Personally, I have quite the thing for Japanese and Korean boys in their 20s. And I greatly miss Bou. Ancafe hasn't been the same since he left.”
“Stupid criticism and still more stupid praise.”
“The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.”
“The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!”

Source : Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss, 1938. Testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, pp. 5-6, October 20, 1945.

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