Claude Lanzmann Quotes
...there's not a single corpse in Shoah (1985). The people who arrived at Treblinka, Belzec or Sobibor were killed within two or three hours and their corpses burned. The proof is not the corpses; the proof is the absence of corpses. There were special details who gathered the dust and threw it into the wind or into the rivers. Nothing of them remained.
Quotes to Explore
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
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Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .
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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
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I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
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All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.
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My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
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There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.
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It is impossible for a Die, with such determined force and direction which makes it fall on such a determined side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such a determin'd side, and therefore I call that Chance, which is nothing, but want of Art.
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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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All 14 guys on the team have sacrificed something to get to this point.
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Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.
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It says in the Bible that if you argue with a fool, you become one. That’s why I don’t talk to Fred Durst!
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
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...there's not a single corpse in Shoah (1985). The people who arrived at Treblinka, Belzec or Sobibor were killed within two or three hours and their corpses burned. The proof is not the corpses; the proof is the absence of corpses. There were special details who gathered the dust and threw it into the wind or into the rivers. Nothing of them remained.
