“There’s no neutrality in a burning house. Silence may feel safe, but it still smells of smoke.” VoiceSilenceResponsibilityCourageSafetyActivismSmokeNeutralityComplicityBurning House Author:Lawrence Nault
“A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.” IfsMenPersonsChoicesFallHouseCausesEnemyHe ManBrokenArmsMembersStandingLegsBurningBrokeMisfortunesJumpingLimbsBurning HouseStanding Down Author:Isaac Deutscher
“To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.” WorldChildrenHouseThis WorldBearsWoodsBurningBurning House Author:Peter Wessel Zapffe
“In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.” MindAsksHouseSoundPowerfulColorDetailsSmellWitnessBurningAssociationListenersExaminingSensoryLodgesBurning House Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” BookHouseImagineBurningBook BurningFahrenheit 451 BookBurning House Book:Fahrenheit 451 Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” WantHouseBurningIntegratedBurning House Author:James A. Baldwin
“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.” ThinkingWorldWholeHouseBornFireWhole WorldBurningBurning House Author:Richard Kadrey
“If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.” IfsArtHouseAlivePagesArt IsCatPaintDenyBurningCanvasInkBurning House Author:Diane Frolov
“For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.” PeopleIfsStoriesRunningHouseObjectsAccessHolesBurningBosniaRunning BackSalvageBurning House Author:Aleksandar Hemon