"On the block we could still hear the screams of the children who were being murdered, then only sighs, and at the end everything was enveloped in death and silence. The next day the men told us that the SS men loaded the children into wheelbarrows and dumped them into the fiery ravines. Living children burned like torches. What did these children do to suffer such a fate? Is there any punishment adequate to repay the criminals who perpetrated these crimes?" - Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, from her memoir "Auschwitz: Tales from a Grotesque Land"
Quote of the Week: July 24, 2006
"This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen. What can one think about? One cannot think any more, it is like being already dead. Someone sits down on the ground. The time passes drop by drop." - Primo Levi, from his memoir "If This is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)"
Quote of the Week: Monday, December 19, 2005
"I have lived with agony for so long that as it beats along with my strong and steady heart, it doesn't bother me." - James Frey, from his memoir "a million little pieces"
Quote of the Day: Monday, September 19, 2005
"Remember that standard journalism legend in which two cars crash in an intersection, five people witness it, and, minutes later, all five people tell different stories about what happened? This exercise doesn't tell us anything we didn't know already: people lie, memory fails. But it does confront us with choices." - Laura Wexler, from her essay "Saying Good-Bye to "Once Upon A Time," or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"
Quote of the Day: Sunday, September 18, 2005
"...implementing the principles of postmodernism in creative nonfiction means taking standard journalistic operating procedure further. It means literary structures and techniques that are the formal embodiment of these principles, such that readers have not only a cerebral, but also a visceral, experience." - Laura Wexler, from her Essay, "Saying Good-Bye to 'Once Upon a Time,' or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"