Top 27 David Grossman Quotes
#1. The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.
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#2. I like to do things that frighten me. When I'm afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, 'I should do it. If I don't do it, no one will do it for me.
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#3. We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.
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#4. It is a journey to the language that can describe what is so hard to utter.
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#5. And suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am
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#6. How could she be feeling the very same streams that rushed around within him? She thought, as they overflowed and lapped inside her too. She had never felt the inside of another person this way.
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#8. From the minute I saw you with the match in your hand I thought I could tell you anything on my mind.
You'd be my model, but for words.
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#9. And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be - everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.
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#10. Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home.
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#11. More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never had nor would again. The thoughts and ideas he had birthed in her, his golden touch, and the words that erupted from her and became sparks of light to him.
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#12. My destiny doomed me to be in this desert land. I will map it.
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#13. For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold ...
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#14. Want
I want
I
want, we want
to wake up,
to wake out
of it, to wake into the light, I want
to dip, to bathe my everything
in light
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#15. Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.
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#16. The book should betray me, in the sense that it should take me to places I am afraid to go
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#17. There is
breath
there
is breath
inside the pain
there is breath
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#18. You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it's a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
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#19. I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.
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#20. That night, on a narrow bed in a rented room in a strange city, a dream was dreamed.
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#21. Tamar noticed that she had never met a person she felt so comfortable being silent with.
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#22. Something has fallen asleep there, that's all, but it's warm, and it's hers, it's the pain imprinted on her, and his healing powers rise up. It's her with everything she now is.
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#23. One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.
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#24. Get up, go and be like him as much as one alive can be like the dead - without dying. Conceive him, yet be your death, too, almost. Like him be now, but only till the shadow of his end falls on the shadow of your being.
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#25. She breathes as if he had held her hand and helped her jump over the chasm of that scar.
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#26. Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.
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#27. And this book was an attempt to be with these feelings, also to find a place that will allow both to remember all the time without dying of it and to forget without killing.
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