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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."
"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"
"All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work."
"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."
"This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still."
"Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands."
"I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force."
"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."
"I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it."
"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."
"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat."
"On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa."
"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."
"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."
"So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe."
"Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life."
"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."
"Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad."
"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."
"However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared."
"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
"I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand."
"Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe."
"The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."
"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence."
"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
"I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."
"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
"We will work with everybody for the good of New York."
"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world."
"We have such a mixture now, such a fusion of different genres."
"Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening."
"He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed."
"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."
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