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People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years. Gyorgy Ligeti

People Thought Long Russian He Almost Because Years Often Fifty Lived

I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. Gyorgy Ligeti

Physics Mind Half Own Changed Later Composer My Own Never Study Half Years Continue Math Years Did Want After Realized

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Gyorgy Ligeti

Work Home Me Sit Say Supposed Although Am False False Modesty Person Just Famous Famous Person Anything Mean Modesty

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. Harry Houdini

Together Cause Face Fire Flame Thoroughly Charcoal Mutton Following Results Mass Over Make Lime Without Mix Quick Liquid Burned Which Use Appear Petroleum Harm

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. Harry Houdini

Fire Extremely Charcoal Eating Kings Feats Generally Known Always Been Intense Heat Quite Sensational Burns Coal

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public. Harry Houdini

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. Harry Houdini

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed. Harry Houdini

Day Great Great Day Say Passed Should

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle. Harry Houdini

A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts. Imre Kertesz

Good You Age People Matter Mirror Depend Add Facts Like Document Contrast Precisely Autobiography Which Novel

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Imre Kertesz

Great History Moral Point Adventure Arrived His Condition Discovered Cultural Auschwitz End Human Where After Human Condition European Traveler

I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization. Imre Kertesz

Changed Civilization Opinion Holocaust European Trauma

No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it. Imre Kertesz

Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer. Imre Kertesz

Life You Writing My Life Every Changed Dimension Writer Idea Existential Same Artist Hold Happening Regardless Whether Moment Painter Awakening

I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection. Imre Kertesz

When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over. Imre Kertesz

You Black Sense Must About Only Write Cheap Over Excuse Know Least Still Auschwitz Begins Suspended Literature Which Certain Should Serial Novel Expression

It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries? Imre Kertesz

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. Imre Kertesz

Suffering Experience Perspective Delay Interviews Prominent Promised Spielberg Silent Gives Through He Academy Him Knows Accepts Makes Auschwitz Survivor After Holocaust Swedish Payments Who Foundation Assigned Keeps Compensation Speech

A book is either autobiography or a novel. Imre Kertesz

Book Autobiography Either Novel

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate. Imre Kertesz

Freedom Fate Then Such A Thing Thing

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power. Imre Lakatos

Truth Faith Science Power Energy Way Must Lies Vocal More Supporters Judging Sciences Social Then Theory Social Sciences Even Number

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Imre Lakatos

Commitment Crime Virtue Blind Intellectual Theory

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