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"The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."
"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."
"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."
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"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come."
"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
"When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process."
"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
"Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world."
"Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed."
"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth."
"In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour."
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