Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi quotes

The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact.
-- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of Jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of Jewish history and tradition, Major Trends is a major port of entry through which one must pass.
-- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

I want to have the memories of my time with you to keep me warm.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

Playing behind a first-ballot Hall of Famer, who also is the all-time record holder for consecutive starts by a quarterback, it's a different mind-set. You just have to challenge yourself in ways that you never challenged yourself before.

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.