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10 Lists - Quotes of Day - 2012
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Quotes of the Week - May 15, 2012:
"His timing was perfect: As women's hair was liberated, so were
their lives." -- Linda Wells, Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief,
describing Vidal Sassoon, the late iconic hairstylist, as a feminist
pioneer due to the haircuts he created for women in 1960s.
"It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that
same-sex couples should be able to get married." -- Barack Obama,
U.S. president, becoming the first sitting American head of state to
declare his support for gay marriage.
"Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated.
The task will not be easy." -- Rick Santorum, former Republican
presidential candidate, endorsing onetime rival Mitt Romney.
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Authors: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Important Quotes, Sayings,
Quotations from the novel by John Boyne
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We don't have the luxury of thinking ... Some people make
all the decisions for us.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno's mother, Page 14. |
One day he was perfectly content, playing at home, sliding
down banisters, trying to stand on his tiptoes to see right
across Berlin, and now he was stuck here in this cold, nasty
house with three whispering maids and a waiter who was both
unhappy and angry, where no one looked as if they could ever
be cheerful again.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
About Bruno, after change of location close
to Auschwitz concentration camp is forced on his family, Page
15. |
So we’re here at Out-With because someone said out with
the people before us?
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno to Gretel, Page 25. |
We should never have let the Fury come to dinner.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno's mother, about Hitler, Page 40. |
He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something
sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before
he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights
with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions
too.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno, Page 69. |
The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether
the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just
sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered.
Like America. And other things are probably better off left
alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno to Shmuel, Page 114. |
You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're
pretending to be, she always told me.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno recalls the plays his grandmother
used to put on for him and Gretel, as he dresses in his camp
costume, Page 205. |
Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his
imagination he had thought that all the huts were full of happy
families, some of whom sat outside on rocking chairs in the
evening and told stories about how things were so much better
when they were children and they'd had respect for their elders,
not like the children nowadays. He thought that all the boys
and girls who lived there would be in different groups, playing
tennis or football, skipping and drawing out squares for hopscotch
on the ground.
... As it turned out, all the things he thought might be there
- weren't.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno in the camp, Page 207. |
Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still
holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would
have persuaded him to let go.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The boys hold hands in the gas chamber
near end of novel, Page 213. |
A few months after that some other soldiers came
to Out-With and Father was ordered to go with them, and he went
without complaint and he was happy to do so because he didn't
really mind what they did to him anymore.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bruno's father realizes as the person managing
the camp, he was responsible for his own son's death, Page 216. |
Quotes from the Movie:
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,
before the dark hour of reason grows. - John Betjeman.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Movie begins with this quote. |
Bruno: There is such thing as a nice Jew, though, isn't there?
Herr Liszt: I think, Bruno, if you ever found a nice Jew, you
would be the best explorer in the world.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
About Bruno, after change of location close
to Auschwitz concentration camp is forced on his family, Page
15. |
Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're
meant to be enemies. Did you know that?
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
To Shmuel. |
Lieutenant Kotler: They smell worse when they burn, don't
they?
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Referring to Jewish prisoners in camp,
as smoke comes from camp chimneys. |
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| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: a
2006 novel about Germans and the Holocaust, from the point of view
of a young boy, written by Irish novelist John Boyne. John Boyne was
born on April 30, 1971, in Dublin. The book was made into a movie
(2008). |
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