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Quotes by Polish Authors
"God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't."
"The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence."
"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."
"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
"Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it."
"I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles."
"In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed."
"Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth."
"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
"But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons."
"When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for."
"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
"It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine."
"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
"I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement."
"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
"Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out."
"I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better."
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force."
"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private."
"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active."
"And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive."
"Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light."
"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development."
"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy."
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
"It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one."
"In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one."
"Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them."
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