The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass. Armenian refugees, Jewish refugees, refugees from Fra...nco Spain. But a political leader or artistic figure is an exile. Thomas Mann yesterday, Theodorakis today. Exile is the noble and dignified term, while a refugee is more hapless.... What is implied in these nuances of social standing is the respect we pay to choice. The exile appears to have made a decision, while the refugee is the very image of helplessness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid, ...and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bugle-call to arms again sounded in my war-trained ear, the bayonets gleamed, the sabres clashed, and the Prussian helmets and... the eagles of France stood face to face on the borders of the Rhine.... I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul: Did you have fun as a kid? Jeanne: It's the most beautiful thing.... Paul: Is it beautiful to be made into a tattletale, or forced to admire authority, or sell yourself for a piece of candy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, no! I don't, I don't want to know your name. You don't have a name, and I don't have a name, either. No names here. Not one na...me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a gru...nt or a groan for a name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands... in breaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »