“We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“Societies may die a violent death, like the Inca and Aztec societies which the Spaniards destroyed with gunpowder in the sixteenth century; and it is sometimes thought by people who have been reading historical thrillers that the Roman Empire died in the same way, at the hands of barbarian invaders. That theory is amusing but untrue. It died of disease, not of violence, and the disease was a long-growing and deep-seated conviction that its own way of life was not worth preserving.”
― The Principles of Art
― The Principles of Art
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“If, in time of peace, our museums and art galleries are important to the community, in time of war they are doubly valuable. For then, when the petty and the trivial fall way and we are face to face with final and lasting values, we… must summon to our defense all our intellectual and spiritual resources. We must guard jealously all we have inherited from a long past, all we are capable of creating in a trying present, and all we are determined to preserve in a foreseeable future. Art is the imperishable and dynamic expression of these aims. It is, and always has been, the visible evidence of the activity of free minds.…”
― The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History
― The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History
“More than anything, the Nazis robbed families: of their livelihoods, their opportunities, their heirlooms, their mementos, of the things that identified them and defined them as human beings.”
― The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History
― The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History
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