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Quote by Erica Jong

“I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.”

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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 was involved in trying to save the Rwandan people and Sudan now. It's a mass murder. Mass murder is a terrifying word. We don't have to go further than that. Cambodia came close to, but what was it, Cambodians killing Cambodians after all. So therefore I think we should be very careful with vocabulary.”

People Thinking Should Trying Involved Mass Murder Killing Careful Vocabulary Sudan Cambodia

Author:Elie Wiesel

“A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.”

Ifs Want Wanted America Periods Safe Jew British Accepted Germany Palestine

Author:Elie Wiesel

“[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory.”

Want Wanted Theory Needed Jew

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.”

World Firsts Book Silent Yiddish

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.”

Knows Children Hate Felt Honest Hatred I Hate Being Honest Hate You I Hate You

Author:Elie Wiesel

“John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.”

Speak Christ Changed Killing Jew Convinced Historian Pope Isaac Things Have Changed Liturgy John Paul

Author:Elie Wiesel

“The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.”

“Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All over the world, especially in Europe, and it's true they begin with anti-Israeli attitudes and then it's so strong that it runs over and becomes anti-Semitic.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

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