“When I talk on the phone with my brother Ivo, who is a theology instructor at Baylor, he invariably wants to talk politics, and I hear clicking in the background, and I say, Why talk politics, just remember where we… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“When I talk on the phone with my brother Ivo, who is a theology instructor at Baylor, he invariably wants to talk politics, and I hear clicking in the background, and I say, Why talk politics, just remember where we… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“Strangely enough, I am beginning to feel like an exile when I go to a polling station in PA and people hold placards approving… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER TRIED IT. In Daruvar, Croatia, he bought a piano, sat my oldest brother at it, and hired a teacher. Whenever Vlado made… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“It was clear that people were not rushing to the shelves. In fact, I’d never seen anybody in a library pick up a small… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“I was taught not to distinguish between patriotism and nationalism; the word patriotism was an attempt to present the same ugly nationalist phenomenon of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“In the train, I read a special issue of Der Spiegel, about the Germans who had been driven out in ethnic cleansing campaigns at… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“But that did not make Mirko happy - the world was melting away; what was a grade compared with the world? He gazed through… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing than while not writing...” — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“Enemies keep you alert, competitive, and friendships lull you into mediocrity, and through peer pressure, keep you back and down, and eventually, down and… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow the arsenal… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
“Diogenes heard a young man playing on the lute. The otherwise stoical philosopher seemed to be touched by the emotional music and he fought… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
