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Elie Wiesel Quotes

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1928 - July 2, 2016

Topics

Language Violence Feeling Never Had

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Life Love Attention You Fall Back

The older I get, the less busy I like to be.

Busy Get Like Older Less

I think it was really important for me before I 'debuted myself' in front of the world to have a private life with my imagination and my writing for several years. That also made it so I didn't feel desperate for someone to find me.

Life Myself Imagination Me World

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Patience Sad Despair Too Near

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Good Time People Think Doing Long

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Shinichi Suzuki

Knowledge Skill Ten Thousand Plus

My songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.

Children Support Me Old Expect Like

I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar.

Brother Sweet Care You Sweet Tooth

I actually was brought up by an Airedale. I don't really remember my parents, especially my mother. It was only the dog that I saw.

Christopher Plummer

Dog Mother Parents Remember Up Saw

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Anthony Minghella

Me Speak Feeling Belonging Sometimes

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

Work Time Job Sick Appreciate Young

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Happiness Moment Curious Colleagues

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