Aharon Appelfeld Quotes

#1. A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

Aharon Appelfeld

#2. Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Aharon Appelfeld

#3. My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

Aharon Appelfeld

#4. I spent only $500 to start CD Baby. The first month, I earned back $300. But the second month I made $700, and it's been profitable every month since.

Derek Sivers

#5. The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

Aharon Appelfeld

#6. I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

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#7. I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

Aharon Appelfeld

#8. A message to women in general is be happy with yourself first. Be sure that you take care of yourself and find yourself. Be comfortable! And you will be way more appealing. Do what's best for you, and everything will fall into place.

Raven Goodwin

#9. As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

John Ridley

#10. The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Aharon Appelfeld

#11. Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

Wyndham Lewis

#12. The world loves a good royal fairy story.

Heather Lyons

#13. People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

#14. To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

Aharon Appelfeld

#16. Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth ... is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.

Tony Blair

#17. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles either.

Robert M. Pirsig

#18. If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

Paul Berman

#19. A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren't born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

Aharon Appelfeld

#20. I didn't see her die, but I did hear her one and only scream

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#21. I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

Aharon Appelfeld