Edith Hahn Beer Quotes
Uncle Richard went to the café where he had been going for twenty years. It now had a Jewish side and an Aryan side, and he sat on the Jewish side. Because he had fair hair and didn’t look Jewish, a waiter, who did not know him, said he had to move to the Aryan side. But on the Aryan side, a waiter who did know him said that he had to go back to the Jewish side. He finally gave up and went home.
Edith Hahn Beer
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Be obscure clearly.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Uncle Richard went to the café where he had been going for twenty years. It now had a Jewish side and an Aryan side, and he sat on the Jewish side. Because he had fair hair and didn’t look Jewish, a waiter, who did not know him, said he had to move to the Aryan side. But on the Aryan side, a waiter who did know him said that he had to go back to the Jewish side. He finally gave up and went home.
Edith Hahn Beer
