Edmund de Waal Quotes
It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was a Russian in Vienna for fifty years, then Austrian, then a citizen of the Reich, and then stateless. Elisabeth kept Dutch citizenship in England for fifty years. And Iggie was Austrian, then American, then an Austrian living in Japan. You assimilate, but you need somewhere else to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
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It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'
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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.
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It makes me wonder what belonging to a place means. Charles died a Russian in Paris. Viktor called it wrong and was a Russian in Vienna for fifty years, then Austrian, then a citizen of the Reich, and then stateless. Elisabeth kept Dutch citizenship in England for fifty years. And Iggie was Austrian, then American, then an Austrian living in Japan. You assimilate, but you need somewhere else to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private.
