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Daniel Behrman
Daniel Behrman quotes
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“I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
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“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”
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“Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.”
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“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
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“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”
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“Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.”
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“I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.”
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“In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.”
