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81 " In the morning, the recaptured escapee had her arms and legs broken in front of their eyes. "
― Clive James , Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
82 " (The poverty of his son has diminished, apparently, but we are assured that Annan had no direct responsibility for that.) "
83 " the failed states in Latin America needed double-entry bookkeeping more than they needed any ideology, "
84 " To reform an evildoer, you must before anything else help him to an awareness that what he did was evil. With the Nazis this won’t be easy. They know exactly what they’re doing: they just can’t imagine it. "
85 " It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign. "
86 " When everything has left you, you are alone. When you have left everything, you are lonely. "
87 " ample opportunity to realize that those who have made compromises under an occupation in order to survive are reluctant to meet anyone tactless enough to return from oblivion. "
88 " a phrase among the refugees for how they felt about America: Dankbar aber ungülcklich (thankful but unhappy). "
89 " Latin America in the late twentieth century was a tragic laboratory for testing all the wrong ways to think about a national culture. "
90 " Yonder lies the castle of my father. —TONY CURTIS (ATTRIB.), "
91 " Pygmalion: “A comedy about a man who turns a girl into a lady, but in doing so overlooks the woman. "
92 " Yonder lies duh castle of my fuddah. "
93 " Any pipsqueak can roar like a lion on paper, because grand words cost little, whereas delicacy—the delicacy of Chopin for example, persevering to the extreme, tense, elaborate—requires effort and character. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, "
94 " Of a young actress: “She is pretty, and tactfully concerned that the optical pleasure she provides shall not be disturbed by technical requirements any more than necessary. "
95 " Of a bad playwright: “Saying nothing is the mother tongue of his art. "
96 " Finally, someone has to make a start. We only said and wrote what many people think. They just don’t dare to express it. —SOPHIE SCHOLL AT THE WHITE ROSE TRIAL IN MUNICH, QUOTED BY RICHARD HANSER IN DEUTSCHLAND ZULIEBE (FOR THE SAKE OF GERMANY), P. 15 "
97 " I find that any self-respecting artist must be, and in more than one sense of the term, an émigré. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, VARIA, VOL. 1, P. 203 "
98 " Polgar’s praise for his brains: “High intelligence, from which the blessing of refreshing words falls in a shower, offers here a rich substitute for art. "
99 " Sartre’s existentialism, where it essentially means having the chutzpah to do what it takes so that you may suit yourself—not quite the same thing as being true to yourself.) "
100 " Until the end of World War II, Argentina and Australia were running in parallel. "