Nathan Englander Quotes

#1. Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

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#2. I'd much prefer my books to shoes ... In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

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#3. How terribly unfair that his whole self aches because of the shape of a shoulder, the soft line of a hip.

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#4. The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

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#5. When my mother told my father what had happened, he didn't want to believe it. "Nobody ever wants to believe what happens to the Jews," she said, "not even us.

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#6. These are hopeful stories from hopeless times. Without them the grief of this nation would tip it into the sea.

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#7. And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.

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#8. No, no," Arnie says. "Fondle--fondle is to touch. Everything sounds Yiddish to you. Far-fetched, far-flung..." "Farflung is Yiddish." "No," Arnie says, "it's not.

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#9. You cannot learn to curse like an American.

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#10. I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

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