Concentration camp Quote by Bryce Courtenay

“I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps”

— Bryce Courtenay

“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you made in…

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— Megan Miranda

“When I opened the box, I had to remove myself from whose handwriting it was that I was reading and whose story I was…

— Kara Martinelli

“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like…

— Alex Garland

“I'm not lying to you," she said, shaking her head. "I really can't do it." "You can and you must," they snapped. "Those stories…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.”

— Tracy Guzeman

“Often, I felt there was something unsaid behind them, a deeper interpretation I was supposed to take from it and I wondered just how…

— Nicky James

“Today most of us speak, think and dream in imperial languages that were forced upon our ancestors by the sword.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When words fail, then real language arrives, that rare guest.”

— Carolyn Chun

“You lie enough and all of a sudden it’s like lying is the language you speak and your first language starts to disappear.”

— J.C. Lillis

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller