“some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys — literary masterpieces. I have tried to make of you good readers who read books not for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters, and not for the adolescent purpose of learning to live, and not for the academic purpose of indulging in generalizations. I have tried to teach you to read books for the sake of their form, their visions, their art. I have tried to teach you to feel a shiver of artistic satisfaction, to share not the emotions of the people in the book but the emotions of its author — the joys and difficulties of creation. We did not talk around books, about books; we went to the center of this or that masterpiece, to the live heart of the matter.”
― Lectures on Literature
― Lectures on Literature
“When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.”
― Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
― Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
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