We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.


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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD
I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. SEBALD
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ...
W. G. SEBALD
Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only whe...
W. G. SEBALD
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
W. G. SEBALD
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can enca...
W. G. SEBALD
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD
I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
W. G. SEBALD
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy ...
W. G. SEBALD
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
W. G. SEBALD
It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You...
W. G. SEBALD
In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; ther...
W. G. SEBALD
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. EUGENE SMITH
Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. EUGENE SMITH
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. EUGENE SMITH
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day aft...
W. DANIEL HILLIS
A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they'r...
W. DANIEL HILLIS
Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
W. D. RICHTER
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. RICHTER
I think, of all the holidays we celebrate, my least favorite is Earth Day. For one thing, I never kn...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
With a 3D printer, you could build your own car, one part at a time. When you were finished, you'...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. Wh...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what&#...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to thei...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all th...
W. BRUCE CAMERON
Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the lea...
W. BRUCE CAMERON