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Quote by Erica Jong

“I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.”

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Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'. more

“I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Humans Real Sometimes Young Answers Teach Teaching Relation Generosity Educate Components Human Relations

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.”

Ifs Mean Youth Students University Junk Listen To Me

Author:Elie Wiesel

“When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.”

America Teach Study Teaching College University Holocaust

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.”

People Knows Want Today Young Courses Study Special University Optimistic Holocaust Elders

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.”

People Feels Order Sin Mistake Army British Saved Priorities Camps Liberated Auschwitz Colonels British Army

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.”

Believe Life Is Danger Blessing Communicate Curse Nevertheless Threatened True Words

Author:Elie Wiesel

“[Friedrich] Nietzsche said something marvellous, he said "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty", and this is fanaticism.”

Said Consequence Madness Certainty Uncertainty Fanaticism Marvellous

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?”

Ifs Today Xenophobia Phobia

Author:Bill Maher

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