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Mark S. Smith

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Mark S. Smith is an American journalist and writer now based in south Florida, after living for many years in Europe. He is the former Deputy Business Editor of The Herald newspaper in Scotland and is the recipient of a prestigious Scottish Arts Council Award. Mark S. Smith was born in Los Angeles, California, was schooled in both the U.S. and the U.K., and has traveled extensively as a journalist and writer throughout Europe, the U.S., and parts of the Middle East, Asia and South America. He has written literally thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and is the author of the acclaimed historical/personal work, "Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling," and the novel, "Masel." He is also the co-author of "How to Ma ...more

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Mark S. Smith I don't get writer's block. The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write. Once you know what you want to say, you communicate your idea in…moreI don't get writer's block. The hardest thing about writing is knowing what to write. Once you know what you want to say, you communicate your idea in the best way you know how. With effort and honesty, the words may be beautiful.(less)
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An Appreciation

My humble tribute to Sam Sperling.

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“They called themselves socialists, and in some ways they were model socialists, fighting for the rights of workers, the way a lot of Europeans are socialists now. They hide behind their fake egalitarian principles, but really nothing has changed. Outwardly, they’re no longer anti-Jewish. Instead they’re now anti-Israel, but they’re still filled with hatred. They have all these grand ideas, with culture and cathedrals and their music, but actually they’re all just hooligans who want to kill people, identical to their anti-Semitic ancestors.”
Mark S. Smith, Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling

“The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation, and it seems most true when it eschews artistic devices of any sort.”
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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
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message 2: by Wayne

Wayne Congratulations, Mark.
Best of Luck with your Lecture, Reading and Q & A.
I'm SURE you will have a wonderful adrenalin rush and enjoy every moment of your launch.
Just wish Los Angeles was a tad closer and cheaper to get to !!!!

It is almost a quarter to 5pm here in Sydney on Sunday 29th March 2015, but still YOUR tomorrow. So will send some positive thought waves your way on My Monday as well !!!
Cheers as always , Wayne from Sydney !!!


byhera never mind Mr Mark :)
thanks for the request..

Cj_


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