Hilsenrath Quotes

#1. In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#2. I felt guilty because I survived.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#3. The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set.

Terry Tempest Williams

#4. Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

Richard Cecil

#5. The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#6. I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#7. She was the sort of woman who could suck out free will and self esteem with a look.

Tyne O'Connell

#8. The road I have travelled feels right to have found my home in you.

Joe

#9. The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#10. One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

Margaret Thatcher

#11. No one gets an easy pass in life. We all meet struggles while pursuing our dreams. Sometimes our knees shake when facing giants, and sometimes our feet get knocked out from under us. Those are defining moments.

Jake Byrne

#12. Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#13. The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

Edgar Hilsenrath