American - Novelist | September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016
I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel
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I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
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I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.
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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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After all, God is God because he remembers.
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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Some stories are true that never happened.
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One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
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The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.
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You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.
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When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
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