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61 " Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life. "
― Clive James , Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
62 " We rebelled by criminal methods against the joyfulness of the new life.” —LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI QUOTING BUKHARIN AT HIS TRIAL, IN MAIN CURRENTS OF MARXISM, VOL. 3, P. 82 "
63 " Onlookers who fell for Bukharin’s big moment would fall for anything. "
64 " It has to be remembered that the typical Polish writer was Bruno Schulz. "
65 " But for that to be remembered, Bruno Schulz has to be remembered, "
66 " and the main reason he was so easily forgotten is that a Gestapo officer blew his brains out. "
67 " The ideal version of the Italian language, say the Italians, is Florentine Italian spoken by someone from Siena. "
68 " It seems a fair inference (I have heard even anti-Zionist Israeli liberals implying it) that terrorizing the Palestinian population into flight was a deliberate policy. "
69 " history is “little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. "
70 " the Constitution of the Soviet Union, which Aleksandr Zinoviev tellingly defined as a document published in order to find out who agreed with it, so that they could be dealt with. "
71 " To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON, "
72 " As a Jewish teenager in Czechoslovakia she was fated to be swept up by the Nazis, "
73 " If I no longer know that my redeemer liveth, I know that he speaketh not like Tony Blair. "
74 " Auschwitz, where she wound up in a block for young girls. "
75 " Mercifully, in evoking her girls’ dormitory, she restricts herself to one scene. "
76 " The girls had to kneel all night on the parade ground waiting to see one of their number punished "
77 " Any of the kneeling girls who fell over was taken away to be gassed, "
78 " This was a strong point if you thought that Annan’s disapproval of poverty and racism was ever likely to diminish either of those things. "
79 " Many attempt without success to make up for their lack of talent with defects of character. "
80 " They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no-one understands you. —CHARLES CHAPLIN TO ALBERT EINSTEIN AT THE 1931 PREMIERE OF CITY LIGHTS "