"Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that"

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Source : "IFC Films to Re-Release Landmark Documentary Shoah" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 2, 2010.

Claude Lanzmann

#Powerful Quotes #Wanted Quotes #Constructs Quotes

“God is with you always. Simply turn your face to Him.”
“When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.”
“Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.”
“I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.”
“Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.”
“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.”
“It is not possible to foretell the reaction of certain elements in the Army and Navy.”

Source : "The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb" by Dennis Wainstock, (p. 107), 1996.
“No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.”

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