Berlin-after-war Quote by Andrei Cherny

“In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America, where we…

— janet fitch

“I remember, in former East Berlin, how startling it was to see the wall cut some streets. The street would go straight into the…

— Josip Novakovich

“the Berlin Wall failed to elicit a jubilant response on his part. He explained,”

— Oliver Stone

“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible…

— Krista Tippett

“Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them.”

— William T. Vollmann

It was great to see the Berlin Wall come down.

— Jim Kerr

“SADLY, sometimes, we have to know the horrors of WAR, before we can appreciate the beauty of PEACE.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Within an hour Groves’s teletype rattled out a translation. My fellow Germans! I live! Yet another of the countless atrocities that have befallen our…

— Gregory Benford

“Did you know that some people wish the Berlin Wall had never come down?” said Esther. “That’s weird, isn’t it? Why would you want…

— Liane Moriarty

“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.”

— H.L. Mencken

“Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively…

— Michael B. Oren